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Authorities Mistakenly Arrest Arab-American Leader
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — There’s different kinds of Ooops. There’s the recent one when presidential candidate Rick Perry had a senior moment during the debates. Then there’s the ones where authorities arrest the wrong guy. This one involved the wrong guy. The Detroit Free Press reports that police, acting on an FBI arrest…
Retired FBI Agent Herm Groman Isn’t Buying the Occupy Wall Street Movement
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Reviews Mixed on “J. Edgar” Movie
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Friday marks the official general release of the much awaited “J. Edgar” movie produced by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The reviews are mixed, so I thought I’d post some from papers around the country. The movie, way before its release, became controversial because of its suggestion that…
Doing the Right Thing in the Penn State Scandal
As head of the FBI’s Ann Arbor office, Greg Stejskal got to know well the legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler. Stejskal, who has retired from the FBI, gives his insights into the Penn State scandal and discusses how he thought Schembechler, who died in 2006, might have handled it. By Greg Stejskal…
“Geezer Bandit” Chalks Up #15 in Calif.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com That rascally bandit known as the “Geezer Bandit” continues his elusive ways. On Wednesday, the FBI issued a statement that the bandit, who appears to be in his 70s, had hit his 15th bank in the San Diego area on Sept. 30, the Associated Press reported. The robbery occured at a…
Guatemalan Drug Enforcement Improves; DEA Standing in the Shadows
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Elio Lorenzana, on who’s head the U.S. government placed a $200,000 reward, was peacefully detained after a DEA-supported operation. The lede of the story, on the website InSight (tagline: “Organized crime in the Americas”), reads: “Guatemala has now captured more top-level drug traffickers in the past two years than in the…
Cyber Ring that Infected Millions Taken Down
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Six Estonians operated a vast internet fraud that infected approximately 4 million computers in more than a hundred countries–500,000 of which were in the US–according to a federal indictment unsealed in New York Wednesday. Their arrests in Estonia on Tuesday were the culmination of a two-year FBI probe named Operation Ghost…