By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The man shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent last week was wanted for murder, KMVT.com reports. Investigators said a man was crossing the border illegally in Sumas in Washington when the shooting occurred. “The subject refused the agents commands then assaulted one of the agents with an unknown incapacitating…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Phil McNiff, a former FBI agent and executive vice president of the New York Yankees, died Sunday, The Tampa Tribune reports. McNiff died following “a long, difficult battle with an illness that sapped his memory and his remarkable spirit of caring for people.” McNiff, whose older brother also worked for the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Army sniper has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a DEA agent and an informant. Joseph Hunter, 49, and five others were arrested in September 2013 after they were recorded plotting to kill a DEA agent and informant in Liberia for $800,000, International Business Times reports. Hunter was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent and a prosecutor had a secret affair while working together on controversial storefront operations in Georgia and are under investigation following allegations they illegally helped in informant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The storefront investigations were the subject of intense scrutiny following alarming reports by the Journal Sentinel…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI said Monday it broke up a Russian spy ring in New York City, arresting the alleged ringleader and forcing two others to leave the country, The Washington Post reports. Evgeny Buryakov was charged with conspiracy to act and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government after he…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent is accused of installing a small camera in the women’s bathroom to catch a peak of female co-workers at a compound in San Ysirdo, Calif., ABC 10 News reports. Officials said the agent, who has not been identified, works with internal affairs. He has been charged with…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man convicted in the 1990 shooting death of an FBI special agent has been ordered released from death row in Nevada, KLAS-TV reports. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du said Jose Echavarria must be released within 60 days barring the prosecutors willingness to retry the case. Du said then-Clark County District…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent accused of killing his wife is expected to stand trial for the second time beginning today, the Associated Press reports. Arthur B. Gonzalez, 43, is charged in Stafford County, Va., with second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony It’s his second trial…
