News Story
Feds Join Investigation of Vegas Mosque Fire
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal authorities have joined in on an investigation into a fire at the construction site of a cemetery and funeral home intended to serve the Islamic community in Las Vegas, reports the Las Vegas Sun. But the leader of the Islamic Society of Nevada does not believe the fire was the result of…
Meth Lab Seizures Up; Experts Point to “Shake-and-Bake”
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com According to an AP survey of the nation’s leading states in meth production, lab seizures by law enforcement agencies rose nationally, the AP reports. In 2011 Missouri was the leading producer, with 2,096 seizures. Missouri was followed by Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and then Oklahoma. Across the nation the rise in meth…
One of Detroit’s Best Known Mobsters Who was Questioned in Hoffa Case Dies at Age 88
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone, one of best known Detroit mobsters, whose criminal career spanned many decades, and who was questioned in the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance in 1975, died Sunday at age 88. The Detroit News reported that the family held a funeral mass on Tuesday at St. Thecla Catholic…
Fundraising Efforts Continue for Family of Wounded DEA Agent Joe Piersante
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Efforts to help the family of Joe Piersante, a DEA agent wounded in Afghanistan last year while on a mission, is continuing. Besides raising money through t-shirt sales, people are being encouraged to contribute directly to the family by sending a check to JFCU at the following address and endorsement for…
Ex-FBI Official Don Clark Says Mexico’s Drug Violence Our Problem Too
Mexico’s Violence Our Problem Too, Ex-FBI Agent Says: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
British Intelligence Assisted FBI in Tracking Charlie Chaplin
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com MI5, the British intelligence agency, cooperated with J Edgar Hoover’s FBI in tracking the actor Charlie Chaplin in the 1950s for alleged communist sympathies, reports the Guardian. Describing Chaplin as “Hollywood’s parlour Bolsheviks,” the FBI asked MI5 for cooperation in having him banned from the US. MI5 put together “extensive personal…
Comedian David Cross Claims he Snorted Coke Under the Table Near Obama at White House Correspondents Dinner
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com David Cross, the stand-up comic and star of TV shows “Mr. Show” and “Arrested Development”, claims he snorted a very small amount of cocaine in the same banquet room where President Barack Obama and his Secret Service agents were in 2009, reports FOX news. He reportedly did it under the table….
Payday: $29.5 in Forfeited Money Distributed to Law Enforcement Across Texas
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s payday, thanks to a Mexican drug cartel. The bulk of $29.5 million in money seized by federal authorities from a Mexican cartel boss has been handed out in “asset sharing” funds by ICE, DEA, FBI and other federal agencies to law enforcement agencies across the state of Texas to combat…