By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) is voicing concern that guns purchased in an ATF sting in Arizona may have been used by bandits in a gunfight that resulted in the death in December of border patrol agent Brian Terry near the border town of Nogales, the Arizona Republic reported. Grassley…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are investigating allegations that an ATF agent in Virginia stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of ATF-owned cigarettes and sold them, according to the Daily Press newspaper. The agent Clifford D. Posey, 43, who is part of the Norfolk, Va. ATF office, has not been charged, but the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington last week tossed a lawsuit filed by DEA agent Lee Paige, who claimed the agency leaked an embarrassing video of him accidentally shooting himself with a Glock 40 while demonstrating gun safety to children in Orlando in 2004, the Associated Press reported. The video…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Law enforcement fatalities — which included the recent murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona — jumped 40 percent in 2010 compared to last year, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The spike, from 160 deaths in 2010 compared to 117…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Savador man illegally living in Houston was sentenced Tuesday to 55 months in prison for assaulting a Border Patrol agent with his vehicle near Laredo, Tex. while trying to transport 10 illegal aliens, authorities said. Authorities said that on Feb. 15, 2009, at approximately 10 p.m., Border Patrol agents…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some times making a little extra doe on Craigslist isn’t so wise. Retired Border Patrol agent David Pietrantonio has been charged in San Diego with selling official equipment to undercover FBI agents, the Associated Press reported. He had pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. AP reports that Pietrantonio tried to sell “a…
