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Border Patrol Reports Alarming Number of Sex Offenders Apprehended in South Texas
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An alarming number of immigrants who are sex offenders are captured in South Texas. Since October 2013, Border Patrol has apprehended nearly 180 immigrants who have prior convictions for sex offenses, KZTV Action 10 reports. A majority of the offenders sexually assaulted children in the U.S. Just this weekend, Border Patrol arrested…
California Police Officer Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison for Lying to FBI About Extortion Scheme
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A police officer in California who lied to the FBI about an extortion scheme was sentenced Monday to two-and-a-half years in federal prison. Burbank police officer Anthony Valento admitted he lied to FBI agents about dating Gayle Bassett, a victim of a crime for which he was the reporting officer. Bassett was…
TSA Supervisor Charged on Accusations of Paying Underage Girls for Sex in Dominican Republic
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA supervisor is accused of paying two 15-year-old girls to have sex with him in the Dominican Republic, The New York Daily News reports. Vernon Lythcott, who was arrested at Kennedy Airport as he planned to board a flight to the Dominican Republic, was charged Friday for having sex with the…
New DEA Head of Houston Division Brings Plethora of Border Experience
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joseph Arabit, the new head of the Houston Division of the DEA, arrives with a plethora of border experience that authorities hope will help crack down on drug cartel activity between the Texas-Mexico border, KHOU.com reports. Arabit previously was in charge of the DEA office in El Paso at a time of…
Seeking Tough Justice in Probes of Financial Institutions, But Settling for Empty Promises
By Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Don’t get too excited about bank indictments. The Justice Department is talking tough. In an unusually frank video statement, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. proclaimed that he was personally overseeing major financial investigations and that his department was poised to bring charges against several large institutions. The United States attorney in Manhattan,…
FBI Agent Arrested in Pakistan Faces Formal Charges Soon for Trying to Bring Ammunition, Knife on Plane
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police are expected to file formal charges soon against the FBI agent who was arrested in Pakistan after authorities said he tried to carry ammunition and a knife onto a plane in Karachi. The Associated Press reports that a judge on Saturday urged police to file the charges by May 19, the…
Former Israeli Ambassador: FBI Never Scolded Foreign Diplomats for Widespread Spying Since 9/11
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trying to combat published reports that the FBI has scolded Israeli diplomats dozens of times for spying on American intelligence since 9/11, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. said the allegations were baseless. The Jerusalem Post reported that the former ambassador, Michael Oren, insisted the relationship between the two countries has…
Justice Department Seeks Permission to Hack, Search Remote Computers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It used to be the bad guys who hacked computers. But now law enforcement is resorting to the same trickery to search remote computers for investigations. The IDG News Service reports that the Justice Department is seeking permission to hack computers to investigate complex criminal schemes that often utilize millions of machines…