FBI
Inspector Gen. Report Says FBI and ATF Sometimes Race to Be First to Explosive Scene
The Inspector General report simply confirms what’s already been reported and spoken of between agencies. In D.C., there clearly have been turf battles between ATF and the FBI. One of those incidents occurred in 2003 when a North Carolina man with tractor threatened to set off explosives on the Mall in Washington. And that wasn’t…
Crime History:The Fall of “Pretty Boy” Floyd
From the FBI Website Two cars traveled down a country road towards the Conkle farm, two miles south of a small town named Clarkson on the eastern edge of Ohio. It was 4:10 on the afternoon of October 22, 1934, and history was about to unfold. In one car were four Bureau agents, led by…
More Than 1,0000 FBI Agents and LAPD Cops Go After Dozens of Violent South LA Gang Members
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than 1,000 FBI and LA police officers executed dozens of arrest and search warrants Thursday in a move to take down a violent South LA gang known as “Rollin’ 40s Neighborhood Crips”, authorities said. Some gang members were hauled in in pajamas, according to the LA Times. In all, 74…
Press Release
74 MEMBERS OF ROLLIN’ 40’S CRIPS VIOLENT STREET GANG CHARGED WITH FEDERAL AND STATE NARCOTICS VIOLATIONS IN OPERATION “40 OUNCES TO FREEDOM” More than 1,000 police officers and federal agents executed dozens of arrest and search warrants this morning in a coordinated operation in which members of a violent street gang were taken into custody…
International Crime Boss Added to FBI Top Ten Most Wanted List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Semion Mogilevich, an international crime boss and Ukrainian businessman suspected of contract murder, weapons and drug trafficking, high-end corporate fraud and extortion, joins Osama bin Laden on the elite FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List. The FBI said Mogilevich is suspected of being involved in a multi-million dollar scheme…
Mexican Man Gets 3 Years for Beating FBI Agents in New Mexico Train Robbery
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Mexican man has learned the hard way not to press his luck, particularly when it comes to physically beating FBI agents who suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries. Juan Jose Magallanes Torres of Anapara, Mexico, was originally charged with being part of a gang that beat two FBI agents in…