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Movie review: ‘Whitey’ Documentary Gives Too Much Legitimacy to Claim That Bulger Wasn’t Informant
By Kevin Cullen Boston Globe I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Joe Berlinger made a pretty good documentary about Whitey Bulger, but it is seriously undermined by his treating far too seriously Bulger’s claim that he was never an informant for the FBI. Whitey insists he had no idea that when he…
Honduran First Lady Visits South Texas to Witness Crisis of Unaccompanied Children Immigrants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The first lady of Honduras is visiting South Texas immigration shelters beginning today after news broke about a growing crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who were confined to overcrowded, squalid conditions at the border, KXAN reports. Ana Garcia de Hernandez is just the latest in a growing number of…
Border Patrol Officer Hospitalized After Shooting Self in Hand While Cleaning Gun
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol officer cleaning his gun accidentally shot himself and was hospitalized, Fox 5 San Diego reports. The unidentified officer was rushed to UC San Diego Medical Center on Wednesday evening. The accident happened at the officer’s San Ysidro home, where his five children were. Details remained sketch yearly Friday morning.
Synthetic Drug Craze Involving LSD-Like Substance Has Killed 19 People So Far
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is trying to crack down on the latest synthetic drug craze that is responsible for at least 19 deaths nationwide, KGUN9-TV report. The drug is called “N-bomb” and has similar hallucinatory effects of LSD. But users are buying the drug from amateur chemists who are selling the product online. “It’s…
Parker: Supreme Court Effortlessly Throws Out Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
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 Guessing the correct result and even the basic rationale of the Supreme Court’s cell phone case could be considered a minor achievement,…
FBI Shuts Down Website That Advertised Children for Prostitution in San Francisco
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested two people accused of operating a website advertising children for prostitution, CNN reports. Agents shut down the website – myredbook.com – in a raid in San Francisco. The raid was part of a larger crackdown on sex trafficking of minors that led to the rescue of 168 children and…
Border Patrol Union Leaders: Understaffed Agency Is Increasing Immigrant Crisis in Texas
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Union leaders for the Border Patrol told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is understaffed and unable to handle the influx of immigrants as a crisis unfolds at the border with unaccompanied children, the Houston Chronicle reports. The agency is “drastically understaffed with morale plummeting to record lows,” Chris Crane, president of the…