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Immigrant Steals Border Patrol Agent’s Gun, Pulls Trigger But Weapon Jams
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s one of the greatest fears of law enforcement: A suspect wrestles away your guy, points it at you and squeezes the triggers. It happened Wednesday to a Border Patrol agent who was attacked by an immigrant near Encino, Texas, the Monitor reports. Officials said the immigrant wrestled away the agent’s pistol…
FBI Agent Mikulski Dies at Age 50 After Fight with Long-term Illness, Wife Says
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mark J. Mikulski, a supervisory agent at the FBI for nearly 20 years, died at the age of 50 following a fight with multiple myeloma. The Washington Post reports that Mikulski died Feb. 25 at Reston Hospital Center in Virginia. Mikulski led technology programs that detected terrorist threats. A native of Buffalo,…
Pennsylvania Man Charged with Threatening to Kill 2 FBI Agents in Philadelphia
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Most people are wise enough to know not to threaten an FBI agent with violence. Not a Pennsylvania man, who is accused of threatening to kill two Philadelphia FBI agents and their families through more than 850 e-mails sent over just four months in 2012, Philly.com reports. Justin Michael Credico has been…
NRA Casts Ex-ATF Agent in Good Light to Trash the Agency
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The National Rifle Association has never really been much of a friend of ATF. The NRA sees the agency as carrying out a mission that is contrary to its own. So it’s interesting that NRA News has put together a video that casts an ATF agent in good light. Then again,…
FBI Agents Searching Hawaii for Suspect of Two California Bombings in California in 2003
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com FBI agents are in Hawaii searching for the suspect of a two bombings in California that targeted companies that tested animals for products. Hawaii News Now reports that authorities are also erecting signs offering a $250,000 for the capture of Daniel Andreas San Diego, who is suspected of two bombings in 2003….
Former Teacher on FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Producing Child Porn
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eric Toth, a former teacher placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List in 2012 for producing pornography, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison, Reuters reports. Toth took videos and photographs of children while he was a camp counselor in Wisconsin and a teacher in Washington D.C. Toth, who pleaded…
Editorial: Border Patrol Made Right Decision to Restrict Use of Deadly Force by Agents
By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Crossing into the U.S. illegally is not a capital crime. Yet since 2010, some 20 people have been fatally shot by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border. The head of the Border Patrol has taken the correct and necessary step of making clear to his agents that using…
Border Patrol Recruit Not Only Fails Polygraph Test; He Ends Up Under Investigation
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol recruit taking a polygraph test for a job failed miserably. So much so, according to CBS 8, a search warrant has been filed in San Diego County after he admitted to possessing child porn. The 22-year-old man, whose identity was not released, told authorities he possessed 14 images of…