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Secret Service Pick Up Armed Man Outside of Bush Home
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal agents detained an armed man outside of the Dallas home of President George W. Bush, reports Reuters. The man had a weapon in his car but was released after being questioned on Tuesday, a spokesman for the US Secret Service told Reuters. The unidentified man told agents and local police…
FBI Looking for Ways to Better Monitor Social Media
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It is no secret that social networks provide riches of info available to the public. And the FBI is looking for ways to cash in on that and better monitor info on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, reports the New Scientist. A document released on January 19 shows the bureau…
New Home For Phoenix FBI Opens
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Phoenix FBI has a new home. A 210,202-square-foot building on N. Seventh Street officially opened Wednesday, the Phoenix Business Journal reported. It was built by Ryan Cos., a Minneapolis-based company. The paper reported that the building consolidates four previous Phoenix FBI locations. “With more than double the previous space, the…
Guilty Verdicts Returned for Mexican Cartel Affiliates
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Things did not go the way Gerardo Castillo-Chavez and Armado Garcia had hoped in Laredo, Texas, on Wednesday. Both men saw guilty verdicts returned on all charges against them, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced. Castillo-Chavez, a 25-year-old from Tamaulipas, Mexico, was convicted of “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled…
West Virginia Man Pleads to Selling ATF Badge to an Informant
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s good to have an entrepreneurial spirit, but not if it involves thievery. Timothy Nathan Todd, 41, of Huntington, W. Va. pleaded guilty this week in federal court to selling an ATF badge to an informant working for the local ATF task force last October, according to the Huntington News. He…
Concern Over San Fran Police Cooperating With FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The relationship between the FBI and the San Francisco Police Department is coming under some scrutiny by civil rights advocates and local legislators, reports the San Francisco Examiner. Supervisor Jane Kim introduced an ordinance Tuesday to prohibit police that work with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force from collecting information about…
FBI: Israeli Consulates Targeted with (Harmless) White Powder Letters
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A series of “suspicious letters” with white powder have been turning up at several Israeli consulates over the past few days, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “There’s a lot of white powder letters that are going to Israeli consulates around the country,” Chris Allen of the FBI said late Tuesday. “There…
Dotcom Denied Bail, US Seeks Extradition
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The US government’s determination to prosecute copyright infringers continues to strengthen. After being arrested in New Zealand on behalf of the US, the man behind the file-sharing website Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom was denied bail, reports the Sydney Morning Herald, and US authorities are now seeking his extradition. Dotcom’s company is said…