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FBI Arrests Indiana Sheriff Accused of Hiring Prostitute, Urging Her to Destroy Evidence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a county sheriff in Indiana on charges that he paid a prostitute $300 for oral sex and then urged her to hide the evidence, the Courier-Journal reports. The arrest of Sheriff Danny Rodden comes after he was indicted July 23 on charges of lying to federal agents and counseling…
FBI Searching for Massive Cloud Storage to More Quickly Share, Access Information
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to transform how it operates, the FBI is trying to build a massive cloud infrastructure to store massive amounts of information for easy sharing among bureaus, the Federal Times reports. The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division wants to create a cloud environment for statistics, fingerprints and criminal background checks at…
Parker: Slain DEA Agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena Would Be Proud of His Son, the Judge
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 While six extradited Colombians have been arraigned and await trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
Lawsuit: FBI Has Video of Oklahoma City Bombing That Shows Another Person Involved
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Salt Lake Security attorney is suing the FBI to release what he says is a video that shows a second person was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, the USA Today reports. But the FBI has maintained it lost the surveillance video from the 1995 blast that killed 168 people. Jesse…
New Special Agent in Charge of FBI’s San Antonio’s Office Busy with Immigration Issues
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Special Agent Chris Combs has been busy since taking over the FBI’s San Antonio office in April. Combs, who opened the San Antonio office for a media tour on Monday, covers a large area of South Texas and also works out of offices in Austin, Waco and along the border, KSAT 12…
FBI to Media: Please Stop Identifying Mass Shooters
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has taken the unusual step of urging the media to stop identifying mass shooters, KSAT.com reports. The campaign, called “Don’t Name Them,” comes after researchers at Texas State University found that fame and past mass casualties often motivated shooters. “When the media covers it, it unfortunately puts ideas in people’s…
TSA Offers $15,000 for Ways to Improve Frustrating Screening Lines at Airports
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Security comes at a cost. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, passengers have complained about long wait times and intrusive searches. Now the TSA is offering $15,000 for the best ideas for improving those frustrating screening lines, the Los Angeles Times reports. The challenge, said TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein, “is about leveraging…