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Border Agent Fires Shot in Drug Smuggling Incident
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A US Border agent fired a shot along the Arizona-Mexico border on Monday morning while breaking up a drug-smuggling attempt–a shot that may have injured at least one person in Mexico, reports Reuters. “A Border Patrol agent fired a service weapon east of Nogales while responding to illegal narcotics activity. Authorities…
Romanian Hacker Breaks into Pentagon, NASA Databases, Draws Investigation
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Romanian hacker is suspected of breaking into several NASA and Pentagon servers and posting confidential data from the servers on his blog, the Associated Press reports. Romanian officials are investigating the youth, officials said on Tuesday, in cooperation with the FBI. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, reportedly an information technology student,…
Confirmed: Civil Rights Era Photographer Ernest Withers Served as FBI Informant
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The civil rights era photographer Ernest Withers has been officially confirmed as a one-time FBI informant, reports the Blog of LegalTimes. The FBI in the past has long-refused to confirm or deny Withers’s status as an informant, but it accidentally confirmed Withers’ work in documents it released to a newspaper, a…
Folk Nation Gang Members Remain at Large after FBI Arrests
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two members of the Folk Nation Gang remain at large in Brooklyn after NYPD detectives and FBI agents arrested a number of other members early Tuesday morning, the FBI said. One of the fugitives, standing 6′ tall at about 200 pounds, is Devon Rodney, 24, a leader of the violent gang,…
Dem Staff Report Says Top Justice Officials Did Not Give Green Light for Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A report issued late Monday night by the Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform tries to debunk suggestions by Republicans that high level appointees at the Justice Department conceived and directed the very flawed ATF Operation Fast and Furious. It places the blame for the operation squarely…
More than 7 Months Later, FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List Still 2 Short
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s been more than seven months since the FBI’s two most notorious Ten Most Wanted criminals — Osama bin Laden and Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger — were eliminated as fugitives. One was killed. The other was captured. Still, to date, the FBI has yet to replace them. So for all…
Former Secret Service Agent Acquitted on Bribery Charges
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Former Secret Service agent R. Patrick Caldwell was acquitted on Monday of bribery charges involving his body armor company and foreign officials, Reuters reports. Caldwell was accused of trying to bribe a foreign official during a sting where FBI agents posed as representatives of African leaders seeking to by arms. Reuters…
FBI: Lions Fan Threatened to Blow Up Building After Team Fell Behind
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s never been easy to be a Detroit Lions fan. This fact was on hand at the Lions Jan. 7 playoff loss to the New Orleans Saints, where a fan threatened to blow up the team’s home stadium, the Superdome, reports the Detroit News. Shawn Payton, of Jackson, Mich, bomb threats…