After 25 years and investigations that have included the D.C. snipercase and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, FBI agent J. Stephen Tidwell is calling it quits. By LISA BEISEL Annapolis Capitol Crofton resident J. Stephen Tidwell has had an exciting career with the FBI since 1983. He currently holds the bureau’s fourth-highest position, and during…
Ronald B. Turk has been named special agent in charge of the New York field division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Previously, Turk was assistant special agent in charge of the Nashville field division, where he oversaw daily operations of 9 field offices in the state, ATF said. He began his career with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed former Secret Service agent John M. Britt as Director of Public Safety. Britt, a 27 year veteran of the Secret Service, headed up the agency’s St. Louis office and went on in 2002 to become senior director for global security at Anheuser-Busch Companies in St.Louis….
NEW YORK — The FBI awarded the Anti-Defamation League the Director’s Community Leadership Award, which honors individuals and organizations for their efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs and violence in America, the ADL annnounced. The organization said “the award recognized Law Enforcement and Society (LEAS): Lessons of the Holocaust — an innovative ADL training program…
Ronald C. Ruecker has been named the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Office of Law Enforcement Coordination (OLEC). He replaces Louis F. Quijas, who retired to take a position in private industry, the FBI said. Prior to taking his new post, Ruecker was the Director of Public Safety for the City of Sherwood, Oregon, the…
Robert Hart was named president of Pathfinder Consultants International LLC, a Manhattan-based investigative, security and consulting firm, Newsday reported. Hart of Garden City resident was senior agent in charge of the Long Island office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the less than a month to go in the Bush administration, the latest U.S. Attorneys to hit the exit are Steven Biskupic of Milwaukee and McGregor W. Scott of Sacramento. Biskuptic, 47, plans to step down Jan. 9. He was appointed in 2002. His name popped up during the probe…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com QUANTICO , Va. — DEA agents in swat outfits simulated raids on a makeshift methamphetamine lab inside the new-two story building. A studious-looking man in a white lab coat chatted about the scientific side of the highly-addictive drug made of potentially flammable and explosive chemicals. It was all part of the…
