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FBI, Local Police Track Down 1 of 3 Escaped Chicago Inmates
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A brazen jail escapee was arrested in Chicago Thursday without incident but a fellow inmate remains at large, the Huffington Post reports. Joseph “Jose” Banks, 37, and Kenneth Conley made a daring escape from a high-rise jail in Chicago and hopped a taxi shortly before 3 a.m. Tuesday. Local police and agents…
FBI Background Checks for Guns Often Miss Those Who Would Be Banned
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mentally ill people, drug offenders and others who are prohibited from owning guns often are able to obtain a firearm because the required FBI background checks have significant flaws, the New York Times reports. The nearly two-decade-old requirement to conduct background checks of prospective gun buyers isn’t working as planned because many…
Kevin Walker Named FBI’s Next Equal Employment Opportunity Officer
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Kevin W. Walker, the former acting deputy director and general counsel of the National Drug Intelligence Center, was named the FBI’s equal employment opportunity (EEO) officer, the FBI announced Thursday. Walker’s job entails overseeing discrimination complaints, the DOJ Mediator Corps, the reasonable accommodation process and the sign language interpreter program. Between 2006…
DEA Declines to Help LAPD Investigate Death of Suspect Under Federal Custody
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Los Angeles Police Department investigation into the death of a man while he was in the custody of the DEA has been virtually stalled because the federal agency has refused to cooperate with the investigation, the LA Times reports. After analyzing records, the Times wrote that LAPD investigators can’t determine how…
Lawyer In Ex-Detroit Mayor Public Corruption Case Blasts Judge, Accuses Her Of Helping Prosecution
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — In an unusual move, a lawyer in the trial of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick very publicly ripped into the judge after court on Wednesday. Mike Rataj, one of three attorneys for Kilpatrick’s co-defendant Bobby Ferguson, blasted U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds during an interview with the media,…
Retired FBI Official Michael Mason: Arming Teachers? Dumbest Idea Ever Proposed
Michael Mason is a retired Executive Assistant Director of the FBI. By Michael Mason For ticklethewire.com The recent mass shooting in Connecticut was an act of incomprehensible evil. However, in the wake of this tragedy we need to ensure we come together to present thoughtful and effective ideas to reduce the probability of such an…
More Guns Show Up from Botched Gun-Trafficking Operation Fast and Furious
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two weapons linked to the botched gun-trafficking Operation Fast and Furious were found at the scene of a deadly drug cartel gunfight last month, the Tribune Washington Bureau reports. The guns – an AK-47 assault rifle and 5.7 mm pistol – illustrate that some of the 2,000 weapons lost under Operation Fast and…