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TSA Agent Arrested on Felony Charges of Manufacturing, Selling Drugs in South Florida
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent in South Florida has been arrested on felony charges of manufacturing and selling drugs from her home, South Florida 6 reports. During a search of Latwana Daniels’ home, authorities said they found 111 grams of cocaine and 39 grams of marijuana. They also found scales and materials to make…
FBI Sting Rescues 168 Children, Nets 281 Arrests Involving Sex Trafficking
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A weeklong child-prostitution sting netted 281 arrests and the rescue of 168 children nationwide, Time reports. Dubbed “Operation Cross Country VIII,” the string is part of a larger effort that has so far rescued about 3,600 children and led to the convictions of 1,450 people. “Operation Cross Country reveals that children are…
FBI: Puerto Rico Man Arrested for Aiming Laser Pointer at Police Helicopter
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As part of the FBI’s crackdown on people pointing lasers at aircraft, authorities arrested a Puerto Rican man Monday, the Associated Press reports. The FBI arrested Christopher Jusino Rodriguez in the southern city of Ponce after he allegedly aimed the laser at a police helicopter during a security operation. The green light…
U.S. Releases Justice Department Documents Justifying Killing of U.S. Citizen in Yemen
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. did not violate the constitution or other laws by killing American citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen without due process of law, the Justice Department argues in a previously secret memoir release by a federal court Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The memo was written in 2010, a year before…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry Foresees ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’ Over Surge in Children Immigrants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the dramatic spike in the number of immigrants being arrested has created an “untenable situation” at a Border Patrol facility in southern Texas, the Associated Press reports. Perry visited the facility following reports of overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Border Patrol facility housing primarily children immigrants….
Despite Popular Belief, Mobster Didn’t Help Solve 1964 Killings of 3 Civil Rights Workers
By Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger No matter where I speak about the Ku Klux Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, I inevitably get asked this question: Did the Mafia really help the FBI solve the case? The people who ask that question have usually heard some version of this story: Desperate to solve…
Secret Service Helps Nab Peruvian Who Printed $4.5M in Counterfeit Money
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Peruvian man is accused of printing millions of dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency, Bloomberg reports. Authorities arrested Pedro Sosa Inca Casana, 42, as he emerged from a taxi with $1.9 million in counterfeit bills, the Secret Service said. Authorities said the suspect was operating a counterfeiting operation out of a downtown…
Border Patrol Cancels Flights for Central American Migrants Squeezed into Texas Facility
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Flights that were scheduled to begin flying Central American immigrants from Texas to California today to ease up on overcrowded conditions have been canceled, NBC News reports. What’s unclear is why the flights were stopped, said Ralph DeSio, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection. “This whole thing is in a very…