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Law Enforcement’s Use of Cell Phone Tracker Device Fuels Constitutional Debate
By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES Wall Street Journal For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest. Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it’s not…
Georgia May Have Killed More than Troy Davis
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No one can defend a convicted cop killer. That’s easy to say. But they can if there’s a question as to whether the person killed the cop, and if the state has decided to execute that person with so much evidence in doubt. At 11:08 p.m. Wednesday night, the state of…
FBI Probing Arabic Writing on Dozens of Southwest Airline Planes
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Computer Hackers Indicted in Calif., Ariz. and Ohio
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Some have been called criminals and troublemakers, some freedom fighters and political activists. Now, three can assuredly be called indicted. Two computer hackers affiliated with the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous have been arrested by the FBI, reports Fox News. Cody Kretsinger, 23, was charged in Phoenix with conspiracy and the…
FBI-LAPD Homicide Operation Chalking Up Dozens of Arrests
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A joint FBI-Los Angles Police operation aimed a cutting a backlog of gang-related killings is showing some results, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reports that the joint operation, which began in July 1 and ends Sept. 30, has resulted in 43 homicide arrests. And the paper reported that the…
Column: Georgia May Have Killed More than Troy Davis
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No one can defend a convicted cop killer. That’s easy to say. But they can if there’s a question as to whether the person killed the cop, and if the state has decided to execute that person with so much evidence in doubt. At 11:08 p.m. Wednesday night, the state of…
An FBI Raid, a Suicide Kit and Egg on the Face of an Oregon Police Department
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops. The oops began when the FBI in San Diego notified the Springfield, Or. cops that a man in that community had purchased a suicide kit from a 91-year-old retired science teacher in California. The FBI had raided the California woman’s home four months ago and then started — although belatedly…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Meets in Pakistan With Interior Minister
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III visited Pakistan Wednesday, the country where Osama bin Laden took refuge and was killed by the American military in May, the Associated Press reported. The visit comes as tension mounts over the U.S. demands that Pakistan crack down on Afghan militants hiding out in Pakistan,…