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Key Border Patrol Sector in Rio Grande Has New Leader
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector has a new leader. Chief Patrol Agent Kevin W. Oaks took over the helm Sunday, replacing Rosendo Hinojoa, who retired in January, the Brownsville Herald reports. Oaks will be responsible for more than 3,000 Border Patrol agents and nine stations. “I look forward to working with…
TSA Seizes Bejeweled Lipstick Stun Gun from Detroit Airport
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com TSA officers discovered a pink lipstick stun gun in a woman’s baggage at Detroit Metropolitan Airpot on Sunday after spotting something suspicious at the x-ray machine, WXYZ reports. Turned out, the woman was carrying a 5-inch stun gun disguised as a bejeweled lip stick container. The woman was cited but permitted to…
Rev. Al Sharpton Worked As FBI Informant After Getting Caught Talking to Kingpin About Cocaine
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist and former presidential candidate, began working as a confidential FBI informant in the 1980s after he was caught on tape discussing cocaine deals with a drug kingpin, the New York Post reports. Sharpton cooperated with authorities and helped the feds bring down the notorious…
House Committee to Call for Criminal Investigation of Former IRS Official
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Republican lawmakers are want the Justice Department to seek charges against embattled ex-IRS official Lois Lerner. Fox News reports that the House Ways and Means Committee are to meet Wednesday to write a letter notifying the Justice Department that Lerner may have broken the law. The letter will argue that Lerner violated…
FBI: Moroccan National Planned to Attack School, Federal Building with Radio-Controlled Plane
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Moroccan national accused of plotting an attack with a radio-controlled model airplane was arrested Monday by FBI agents, the CTPost.com reports. El Mehdi Semlali Fahti, 27, is accused of plotting to crash the plane into a school and a Connecticut federal building. FBI agents said they found wires and tools inside…
Special Agent Leonard Davey Spent Entire 24-Year Career in City He Loved
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not many FBI agents are as lucky as Leonard Davey. Special Agent Davey spent his entire 24-year career tracking down criminals in the city he loves – San Diego. While most agents agents move around for work, the San Francisco native stayed in San Diego and investigated mobsters, corrupt politicians, law enforcement and…
FBI Under J. Edgar Hoover Hid Bad News about Agent with Help of Supportive Media
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was never as it seemed, and supportive reporters had no qualms changing the narrative to make the bureau look good, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Take April 6, 1939, when an inexperienced FBI agent shot and killed a bank robber, Bennie Dickson, under questionable circumstances. The agency…