By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lewis “Matt” Chapman is taking charge of the FBI’s Mobile, Ala. office, the FBI announced Monday. Chapman’s last stop was as FBI section chief of the Investigative and Operations Support Section, Critical Incident Response Group in Quantico, Va. The FBI said Chapman, as section chief, oversaw the FBI’s National Center for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama continued to chip away at filling some law enforcement seats Wednesday by nominating a U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands and U.S. Marshals for Virginia and New Jersey. The president nominated Ronald W. Sharpe for U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Island. Sharpe has served as the interim…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph Boelter, head of the Minneapolis FBI, who headed up a large scale probe into counterterrorism involving local Somalis heading overseas to fight with a terrorist organization, is headed east to Washington to become the agency’s deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Boelter told the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday nominated three U.S. Attorneys and three U.S. Marshals. The nominees for U.S. Attorney include Charlotte lawyer Thomas Gray Walker for North Carolina’s Eastern District, assistant U.S. Attorney Felicia Adams for the Northern District of Mississippi and S. Amanda Marshall. So far, according to the Justice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Life after the FBI can take some unexpected turns. Ask retired agent Richard Southerton. The 25-year veteran of the FBI is tossing his hat into the ring in a run for a seat on the Wayne County Commission in Pennsylvania, according to the Scranton Times Tribune. “In my wildest dreams, it’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James “Jim” Davis, a 25-year veteran of the FBI, who headed the FBI’s Denver office since 2008, has been named the new director of Colorado’s Department of Public Safety, the Associated Press reported. Davis, who retired from the FBI last month, was named to the post by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As expected, the White House Wednesday nominated Thomas M. Harrigan as the number two person at DEA. Harrigan, who must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, is currently Chief of Operations for DEA, a post he has held since 2008. Harrigan, a well respected figure in the DEA, started…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise. Mexican authorities are saying that two ICE agents who were shot in the northern part of the country Tuesday were ambushed on a road about four hours north of Mexico City by drug cartel gunmen, the Washington Post reports. One died and the other was wounded and is stable…
