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Ex-Secret Service Agent Reflects on Time in Agency
This story as told by Edmund Skrodzki, ex-Secret Service and current executive director of campus safety and security at The Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. Baltimore Magazine There’s never a typical day with the Secret Service. One day you can be doing an investigation, and the next day they send you out to be…
Last of Three Sentenced in Attempted Cocaine Smuggling Sting
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The third and final defendant in a DEA operation targeting three Colombian drug runners tied to a Colombian drug cartel has been sentenced in Seattle, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hector Fabio Zapata was slapped with 30 years in prison on Monday, the last to face sentencing in the cocaine-trafficking probe. Like…
Minn. Woman Sentenced to 15 Years for Threats to Vice Pres. Biden and FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The U.S. Postal Service is grateful people can’t email everything. But this certainly wasn’t what it had in mind. A Minnesota woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday for mailing threats to Vice President Joe Biden, an FBI agent and others over the past two decades, reports the…
Islamic Extremist or an FBI-Created Extremist?
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal authorities have arrested an Islamic extremist, but Adam Martin at the Atlantic Wire is skeptical. Kosovo-born Sami Osmakac is being charged with plotting to bomb Tampa, Fla.-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office to “avenge wrongs done to Muslims,” according to the AP. But Martin is quite ready to pat the…
US Soldier Ditches the Army, Tried to Join Terror Group in Somalia
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Army soldier was charged Monday in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, the terrorist organization, the FBI said in a statement. Craig Benedict Baxam, 24, of Laurel, Maryland, was arrested on Friday, January 6, when he returned to his home state…
Mich. Boy Scout Camp Director Gets 95 Years for Child Porn
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old director of a Boy Scout camp in Western Michigan got socked on Friday with a 95-year prison term in Grand Rapids federal court for child pornography charges. Specifically, Scott Allan Herrick surreptitiously videotaped boys as they were dressing in the locker room in the YMCA in Muskegon, and kept…
DEA Agent May Lose Gun After Fight with Girlfriend
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A DEA Agent may have his gun and ammo taken away from him after being arrested on domestic violence charges in Foster City, Calif., reports the Lagonian. Jay Anderson, a 29-year-old special agent with the DEA, was arrested on October 8 but will not face prosecution for the charges. He faced felony…
ICE: Federal Immigration Program to Become Mandatory by 2013
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Provisions which allowed local law enforcement officials more choices in complying with the federal Secure Communities immigration enforcement program will be “streamlined” or “eliminated,” bringing law enforcement groups in line with federal mandates, reports the LA Times. The information-sharing program between the FBI and local law enforcement, which allows the FBI…