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FBI Top 10 Fugitive Eric Toth Captured in Nicaragua
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former D.C. elementary school teacher Eric Justin Toth, who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, was captured in Nicaragua over the weekend, Allison Klein of the Washington Post reports. Toth, who replaced Osama bin Laden on the Top Ten list, was wanted on child pornography charges. He had been…
Israeli Law Enforcement Officials Met with ADL Days After Boston Bombing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was interesting time for a senior delegation of Israel Police commanders to visit the Anti-Defamation headquarters in New York. The delegation, headed by Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino visited the headquarters on April 19, just days after the Boston Marathon bombing. The meeting had been planned already before the bombing. The…
FBI Has Trouble Interrogating Boston Bombing Suspect Because of His Injuries
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is having trouble interrogating the surviving Boston bombings suspect because of his condition at the hospital, The Guardian reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has a bullet wound in his throat and is unable to speak, The Guardian wrote. “The information that we have is that there was a shot to the…
FBI Disputes Meeting with Older Boston Bombing Suspect Following the Attack
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is disputing claims that agents met with one of the Boston bombing suspects after the devices detonated last week, the Associated Press reports. The mother of the suspects said the bureau met with Tamerlan Tsarnaev after the explosion – a claim that the FBI adamantly denies. FBI spokesman Michael Kortan said…
Absence of ATF in Northern Nevada Thwarts Investigation into Guns, Other Crimes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A tiff between the ATF and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Reno has left crime-stopping teams without the proper equipment to conduct undercover gun operations and gun buyback programs in northern Nevada, the Reno Gazette Journal reports. Since ATF agents left the Nevada office, local and regional police have been unable to…
Weekend Series on Crime: A Vintage FBI Bank Robbery Training Film
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Column: April 19 and Boston Bombing Remind Us We Can’t Drop Our Guard
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — It was noon on a Friday. I was reporter at The Detroit News. It was two days after the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Before long, another reporter and I were speeding north on I-75 to Decker, in the Michigan Thumb, to check out an FBI raid…
FBI Records: Agents Suspected Saudis Living in Florida Provided help to Sept. 11 Hijackers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New FBI records suggest that Saudis who had lived in Florida before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks helped the hijackers, prompting revived calls for an investigation into co-conspirators, BrowardBulldog.org reports. “One question that has gone unanswered through the investigation of 9/11 is ‘Did the hijackers operate alone or did they have accomplices…