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Missing Girl Found Dead, Babysitter Charged in Case FBI Was Involved In
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A missing 9-year-old girl has been found dead, the Associated Press reports, and the girl’s babysitter was arrested on murder charges Monday night. The FBI had been helping in the search. Aliahna Lemmon’s body was found in northeast Indiana, near her family’s mobile home park, investigators say. They aren’t releasing where…
Charges Against Ex-Secret Service Agent Thrown Out
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Patrick Caldwell is breathing a few sighs of relief. Bloomberg reports that the ex-deputy assistant director of the Secret Service had conspiracy charges against him thrown out last week. In the first prosecution of alleged foreign bribery charges based on a government sting operation run inside the country, US District Judge Richard…
Hacking Group “Anonymous” Stole Thousands of Credit Card Numbers to Make Donations to Charities
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST: US Reviewing anti-Muslim School Bias Complaint (AP) Man Accused of Raping Girl, 12, and Forcing Her into Prosecution (LA Times) FBI Investigates Christmas Eve Hack (BayouBuzz.com) Austin-Area Law Enforcement Spends Two Years Focused on Mexican Mafia Activity (The Republic)
FBI Shooting Range is Popular Deer Hangout
By EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press QUANTICO, Va. — Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators. The 547-acre FBI Academy, where some of the nation’s best marksmen fire off more than 1 million bullets every month, happens to be one of the safest places…
New US Attorney for Virgin Islands Named
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barack Obama has named a new man to head federal law enforcement in the drug trafficking-prone US Virgin Islands, reports the Daily World. Ronald W. Sharpe is the new US Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. Sharpe has deep roots and extended family in the area, according to the…
FBI Agent in Prison for Mortgage Fraud; Goes From American Dream to American Nightmare
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent has watched his life go from the American dream to the American nightmare, reports the Los Angeles Times. Darin McAllister was a preacher in southern LA before working for the LAPD. From there he moved onto the FBI, working undercover in LA and then Tennessee, the Times…
Drug Smugglers Try Wigs, Secret Pockets
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Suspected drug couriers from the east coast and Panama apparently used some innovation, smuggling cocaine and heroin in small pockets sewn into Lycra shorts and in their hair weaves and wigs, according to the website Government News Service. GNS reports that 12 individuals were charged in a 20-count indictment, the results…
More Delays for FBI Computer System
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It seems the FBI is having a very tough time getting to the finish line when it comes to implementing an advance computer system. A Justice Department audit has concluded that the launch of a long-delayed FBI computer upgrade has been pushed back to the middle of 2012, reports the Associated…