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Former FBI Agent Gets 10 Years in Prison for Trying to Derail Investigation
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for trying to derail a Utah investigation involving kickbacks from defense contractors. ABC News reports that Robert Lustyik Jr., 52, created a dossier of fake interviews with former FBI agents to make it appear as if he were…
Motorists Defy Border Patrol Orders While Video-Recording Confrontation
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Motorists are increasingly using cameras to defy Border Control questions and orders. The footage of motorists refusing to answer questions on American roads are posted on YouTube and are popular on social media. The overwhelming majority of people don’t seem to care and perhaps see cooperating as their duty in…
Federal Agents Charged with Stealing Bitcoins While Investigating Website
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former federal agents are accused of stealing bitcoins while investigating the online drug marketplace Silk Road. The Huffington Post reports that Carl Force, 46, a former DEA special agent, and Shaun Bridges, 32, an ex-special agent with the Secret Service, were arrested and charged, the Justice Department announced Monday. Force…
Former DEA and Secret Service Agents Expected to Be Arrested For Stealing Money While Working Undercover
By BENJAMIN WEISER and MATT APUZZO New York Times Two former federal agents are expected to be arrested on Monday on charges of stealing money while working undercover on an investigation into Silk Road, the once-thriving black market website for drug dealing, a document shows. The former agents are Carl Mark Force IV, who worked…
Wounded Fed Judge Remains Example of Being Positive About Detroit
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — U.S. District Judge Terrence Berg could be a spokesman for having a good attitude about Detroit despite being the victim of a shooting outside his home in city’s University District earlier this month during an attempted robbery. “Overall, I have such a positive feeling about Detroit and where…
FBI Solves Boston’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crime After 25 Years
Boston’s most notorious unsolved crime may finally have a resolution.
FBI Wants to Ban Cell Phone Encryption; Congress Shows Cluelessness
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the FBI had its way, security encryption would be outlawed on cell phones. FBI Director James Comey is lobbying Congress to create a law that would require tech companies to “create a backdoor into any communications device that uses encryption,” Gizmodo reports. Only trouble is, many Congressional members don’t know…
Parker: President Obama Talks on NPR about “The Wire” and Crime
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com If you haven’t viewed the NPR video of President Obama’s conversation with David Simon, the creator of the HBO series “The Wire,”…