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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…
ATF Arrests Dr. Death in Sacramento for Allegedly Making Assault Rifles in Metal Shop
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Sacramento man known as “Dr. Death” was faces gun-making charges after he was arrested Friday by the ATF, the Sacramento Bee reports. The arrest follows a grand jury indictment of Daniel Crowninshield, 45, of Sacramento, who has been charged with unlawfully making firearms and possessing machine guns. According to authorities, Crowninshield,…
Parker: Strongest Medical Evidence Yet of the Harm from Marijuana Legalization
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 The evidence continues to mount of the dangerous health risks of today’s potent forms of marijuana, especially to segments of the…