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Under Gov. Perry, Texas Creates Own Version of Border Patrol with Game Wardens
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The primary responsibility of Texas game wardens used to be pretty routine – crack down on drunken boaters and investigate fishing tournament cheaters. Now a team of them is patrolling the Rio Grande in search of suspected smugglers and undocumented immigrants, trading in their white cowboy hats for camouflage, the New York…
FBI Joins Search for Missing 6-Year-old Girl in Washington State
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping search for a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her Washington state home this weekend, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The parents, who took FBI-administered polygraph tests, said they waited a day – Sunday – to report Jenise Wright missing because she often wanders off in the fenced-in mobile home park…
FBI Searches for Women to Become Special Agents As Bureau Begins to Hire
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the FBI seeks to hire hundreds of new special agents, they will be looking for women to join the agency. About 20% of the bureau’s special agents are women, according to Fox 29. “I worked the riots, Rodney King. I worked every, anything imaginable,” said Special Agent Tanya Coleman. “I was…
Two Suspects in Shooting Death of Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent Were Illegal Immigrants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two illegal immigrants from Mexico have been charged in the shooting death of an off-duty Border Patrol agent while he was on vacation with his family in Texas, Fox News reports. The defendants have been arrested and deported several times in the past. They are Gustavo Tijerina, 30, and Ismael Hernandez, 40….
Jury: ATF Entrapped Low IQ Defendant by Encouraging Him to Break Law
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man with a second-grade reading level and a low IQ was acquitted in an ATF sting operation because he was entrapped, a jury decided. The jury acquitted Alexis Davis on two counts agreeing that the ATF entrapped the man by “pressing” him to break the law. Had the ATF not encouraged…
Founder of Company That Provided Performance-Enhancing Drugs to Baseball Players Is Arrested
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The founder of a company accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to more than a dozen professional baseball players is expected to be indicted soon by a Florida grand jury after he was arrested Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Tony Bosch, the founder of Biogenesis, surrendered to DEA agents at the bureau’s Fort…
Armed Florida Man Climbs Gate, Demands to Speak to FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An armed 36-year-old Jacksonville man climbed over the fence at the FBI’s Jacksonville office and demanded to speak with agents about someone following him, News 4 Jax reports. Avery McNight Jr. was quickly stopped by a security guard who also was armed and demanded the man drop his weapon. McNight followed directions…
Two Arrested in Connection with Slain Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent in South Texas
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men were arrested Monday in connection with the robbery and fatal shooting of an off-duty Border Patrol agent while he was on vacation with his family, Valley Morning Star reports. Agent Javier Vega Jr., who was stationed in Ricardo, Texas, was killed following a gunshot wound to the chest, and his…