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Credit Card Counterfeiter Busted by Feds in New York
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Agents with the FBI have arrested a group of individuals operating a fraud ring out of a luxury high-rise Brooklyn condo, reports the New York Post. The alleged ringleader, Kwan Miller, used a European instant-messaging service to obtain stolen credit card numbers while chatting with contacts in Russia, according to the…
900-Plus Law Enforcement Officers Involved in Arrests of 27 and Execution of Search Warrants in SF Bay Area
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com More than 900 law enforcement officers and agents followed through on arrests and search warrants in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, according to a press release, as part of a large-scale takedown of a narcotics trafficking ring. Local, state and federal officers, including an FBI SWAT team, made 27…
Good Leads, Still No Suspects in FBI Search for “Potomac River Rapist” in D.C. Area
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s been more than a month since the FBI began publicly seeking a man dubbed “The Potomac River Rapist”, who suspected in a series of sexual assaults and a slaying in the D.C. area, reports the Associated Press, and, despite “multiple good leads and tips,” the bureau has not identified a…
Ex-IRS Employee Sentenced for Trying to Bilk IRS Out of Millions of Dollars
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to Thomas W. Richardson: Get your cash elsewhere. Richardson, a former IRS employee form Mansfield, Tex., was sentenced in Dallas last week to 8 years and 9 months for scheme in which he tried bilking the IRS out of millions of dollars to start a real estate business, the Justice…
Uzbekistan Man Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges in Ala. and Threatening to Kill Pres. Obama in Fed Sting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Alabama isn’t exactly considered a hotbed of terrorism activity. But on Friday, an Uzbek national living in the U.S. pleaded in Birmingham, Ala., to providing material support to terrorist activities and threatening to kill President Obama — all as part of a federal sting. Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, of Uzbekistan, becomes…
Philly DEA Raising Funds for Agent Wounded in Afghanistan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Philadelphia DEA is drumming up some cash to help the family of agent Joe Piersante, a member of the DEA Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST) who was seriously wounded in Afghanistan while on a mission last Fall. The Philly DEA is selling t-shirts and plans a fundraising event –Beef and…
Pharmacist Claims Ex-Cop Fired Without Warning in ATF Agent’s Death on Long Island
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A pharmacist claims a retired Nassau County cop who accidentally shot and killed an ATF agent outside the Long Island store during a New Year’s Eve day robbery, fired without warning, the Associated Press reported. That account, which differs from the cop’s attorney’s version, surfaced after a document was accidentally posted…