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Ex-FBI Agent Sentenced to Probation for Passing on Information about Undercover Investigation
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com A former FBI agent who passed on confidential information to a friend about an ongoing federal investigation in New Jersey was sentenced Tuesday to four years of probation, the Washington Post reports. Ivan Stanchev, 43, delivered information about a criminal probe in Newark to a friend who apparently was curious about an…
Gun ownership appears to be on a steady rise, but the motive is in dispute.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Over the past decade, the number of federally mandated background checks of prospective gun purchases has nearly doubled, the USA Today reports, citing FBI records. Nearly 17 million people received background checks already this year, up from 8.5 million in 2002, the USA Today wrote. If you ask gun-rights advocates what’s causing…
Young Cancer Patients Get Smiles, Honors at FBI Office in Nebraska
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com They aren’t your typical FBI agents. Then again, Sammy Nahorny, 4, Paul Hayes, 9, and Jack Hoffman, 7 aren’t your typical children. Diagnosed with cancer, the children were distracted from their illnesses at the Omaha FBI office, where they became honorary members of the agency during a mock swearing-in ceremony, the Omaha…
FBI Prepares Furlough Days for Agents if Fiscal Cliff Deal Not Reached
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the White House and congressional Republicans fail to reach a budget plan, the FBI is prepared to reduce the number of agents working daily on cases, the Wall Street Journal reports. The plan under consideration would give agents one unpaid furlough day roughly on a bi-weekly basis, the Journal reported. That…
Police in Georgia Prepare to Enforce Show-Me-Your-Papers Law
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police in Georgia are prepared to start enforcing the state’s controversial “show-me-your-papers law” after a federal judge lifted an injunction on it, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The law allows police to check the immigration status of suspects. Anyone believed to be in the country illegally can be detained, the Journal-Constitution reported. Aimed…
Can’t Drive Drugs Across Border? Try Launching Them with a Cannon
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Drug smugglers are using a new technique to get their product across the U.S.-Mexico border, Huffington Post reports. Instead of risking the drive across, some smugglers are launching drugs over the border using a canon. The Huffington Post wrote that 33 cans of marijuana were spotted in a field Friday near a…
Two U.S. Citizens Arrested for Allegedly Planing to Wage Violent Jihad in North Africa
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents arrested two U.S. citizens accused of trying to leave the U.S. for North Africa “to wage violent jihad,” The Los Angeles Times reports. The 25-year-old residents, Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair and Randy Wilson, were charged Tuesday with conspiring to kill people outside the U.S. The L.A. Times reports the men…