By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Secret Service agent is under investigation for flirting with a woman he met while screening bags at an event featuring First Lady Michelle Obama. The agent, whose name has not been released, is accused of sending a racy picture to the woman after the pair had exchanged text messages all…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent is accused of bankrolling his lavish lifestyle with money seized from drug dealers. Scott M. Bowman, 44, has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 confiscated from suspected drug dealers, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Bowman is accused of spending…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Scott Sieben, a DEA agent assigned to the Evansville, Ind., post, died this week from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash a month earlier, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. Scott Sieben, 54, died Tuesday in an Indianapolis hospital where he had been since the May 3 crash. Sieben previously worked…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Members of a violent criminal street gang in New Jersey were arrested after federal authorities said at least one of them was plotting to murder an FBI plot, WABC reports. A state, local and federal investigation culminated in the arrests of 71 people allegedly connected to the Grape Street Crips gang….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An alarming spike in sexual abuse by CBP agents has been recorded, and officials are scurrying to find out why, the Daily Mail reports. The agency’s former head of internal affairs, James Tomsheck, who handled sexual assault investigations, said there was a “spike” of more than 35 cases involving agents between…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent has been charged with faking cancer for five years in an attempt to stay out of work, The Associated Press reports. The former TSA agent, Marc Bess, was arrested after authorities said they discovered he was lying about having abdominal lymphoma. In fact, he’s cancer-free, the AP reported….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days before President Obama was to visit Utah, an FBI agent’s sniper rifle was stolen from his car in Salt Lake City hotel, International Business Times reports. Police said the rifle was stolen from the agent’s parked car, where it was stored and properly locked down in a hard case….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI agent who played a key role in the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing credits more than talent or good training on capturing Timothy McVeigh. In an interview with the Oklahoman, Special Agent R. Scott Crabtree said divine intervention played a role in McVeigh’s capture. “At the risk…
