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Secret Service Looks to Beef Up White House Security After Embarrassing Blunder
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was an embarrassment and failure of the Secret Service. An Army veteran with a pocketknife scaled the White House fence and entered the executive mansion Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports that Secret Service is reviewing ways to better protect the White House. The suspect on Friday, Omar J. Gonzalez,…
DOJ Supports Special Needs Student Who Was Used As ‘Rape Bait’
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is supporting the family of a girl who was raped after a teacher told her to act as bait to catch a suspected sexual predator at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Ala. The Daily Mail reports that the school had failed to discipline the suspected predator because he…
Judge Rules In Favor of Ex-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns and Slaps ATF
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge gave what former ATF agent Jay Dobyns seemed to want most: Vindication. The Arizona Republic writes that U.S. Federal Claims Judge Francis M. Allegra of D.C. ruled in a lawsuit filed by Dobyns that ATF failed to properly respond to death threats against him after he infiltrated the…
Ex-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns on His Court VIctory: ‘I Hope It Helps the Many Other Abused Employees Who Never Had a Voice’
The following was written after ex-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns’ won his lawsuit against ATF. A federal judge awarded him $173,000 and lambasted ATF. Dobyns, who had gone undercover with the Hells Angels, claimed that the department didn’t do enough to protect his life after getting death threats and having his house catch on fire. The…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Detroit Mafia
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FBI Arrests homicide fugitive in Delaware After 13 Years on Run
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Victor Castillo lived a quiet life as a maintenance man for an apartment building in Wilmington. Turns out, Castillo’s real name is Ignacio Constantino, and he was wanted for first-degree murder in Tennessee for 13 years, the USA Today reports. The FBI, along with local police and the U.S. Marshals Service,…
Suspected Cop Shooter Eric Frein Is Added to FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s newest addition to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is Eric Matthew Frein, who is the lone suspect in the delay ambush of two Pennsylvania state troopers, the Huffington Post reports. The FBI said it’s not messing around. “When law enforcement officers are violently targeted, we take it seriously…
Retired FBI Agent Charles McGinty, Who Went After Public Corruption, Died at Age of 67
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charles McGinty, a retired FBI agent with an impressive resume, died Thursday of unknown causes, NOLA.com reports. He was 67. McGinty was supervisor of a public corruption squad in the FBI’s New Orleans office when he retired in 2004. After retiring, McGinty became a security director for Fidelity Homstead Savings Bank,…