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The FBI’s Most Popular Post on Its Website Involved a Famous Art Heist
By Alan Stamm ticklethwire.com The FBI uses the news area of its website to post arrests, convictions, awards and requests for crime-solving tips. The most-viewed post of 2013, the bureau tells a journalism blogger, is a March 18 item offering a $5-million reward for help cracking a notorious 1990 art theft. The cold case…
FBI Intervenes in Cases Before Mass Shootings by Getting Mental Health Professionals Involved
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is known more for combating crime than preventing it. But behind-the-scenes, the FBI has been busy trying to prevent mass shootings and violent attacks by getting mental health professionals involved, the Associated Press reports. Behind the effort is the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, which has worked for years with state…
Iranian Official: No Trace of Ex-FBI Agent Who Vanished in Country 6 Years Ago
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The case of the former FBI agent who went missing in Iran six years ago remains a mystery. There’s no evidence that Robert Levinson is in Iran, the country’s Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the Associated Press. “What we know is that he is not incarcerated in Iran,” Zarif…
Study: Active Shooting Incidents Triple in 3 Years, But Go Largely Unnoticed Nationally
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More people are opening fire on crowds with the intent of mass murder, Scripps News reports. The disturbing trend was revealed, in part, by a Texas State University researcher exclusively retained by Scripps News. Click here to see the interactive map of active shooters. According to the data, active shooter incidents have…
Few Border Patrol Agents Are Ever Disciplined for Using Deadly Or Questionable Force
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents rarely face repercussions for using deadly force, even when the shootings are questionable, the Arizona Republic reports. At least 42 people, including 13 Americans, have been killed by on-duty Border Patrol agents and CBP officers since 2005. The deaths range from justifiable to highly questionable, the Republic wrote. Although…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Irish and Italian Mob in Cleveland
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Fox News: Surveillance of Americans Violates Constitution, Reduces Our Free Choices
By Judge Andrew Napolitano Fox News Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to…
Former Teacher on FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List Pleads Guilty to Pornography
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eric Toth, a 31-year-old former teacher and camp counselor, was described as “every parent’s worst nightmare,” Reuters reports. But in 2008, he fled the Washington area when authorities began investigating claims that he possessed child pornography on a camera at the private Beauvoir School. Toth was captured a year after he was…