Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After seven grueling days, negotiations between the FBI and a kidnapper had broken down in southern Alabama. Fears elevated when agents saw the kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, with a gun, NBC News reports. A decision had to be made. “Within the past 24 hours negotiations deteriorated and Mr. Dykes was observed holding…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As a hostage standoff reaches a fourth day in Alabama, authorities are hoping the kidnapper grows tired and surrenders as a FBI hostage negotiator talks with the suspect through plastic ventilation pipes, CNN reports. On Tuesday afternoon the suspect boarded a bus stop, killed the bus driver and grabbed two children. One…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Alabama Department of Homeland Security released an unusual instructional video on how respond to a mass shooting, Gawker reports. With haunting music and blood spatter, the six-minute video “scares the shit out of everyone who watches it,” Gawker reported. The video, produced originally by the Houston Police Department, depicts an office…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists now includes an American accused of working with terrorists in Somalia, the Associated Press reports. The AP reported that the FBI on Wednesday added former Alabama resident Omar Shafik Hammami to the most wanted list, which has grown to 31 since being created a month…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a dramatic departure from tough laws in Arizona and Alabama, the California Senate Thursday approved a bill that would bar local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration officials on most cases, the LA Times reports. The Trust Act bans local police from detaining suspects for possible deportation unless they have serious…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Arizona and Alabama impose tough crackdowns on illegal immigration, California lawmakers are creating a bill that would protect many illegal immigrants, Reuters reports. California lawmakers are crafting a bill that would bar local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials unless he or she has been convict of a serious…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It ain’t the crime of the century. But it can still land you in one heck of a lot of trouble. Ask Alexander D. Alvarez. Alvarez pleaded guilty to the selling and possessing of illegal migratory bird feathers, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. Alvarez, of Atmore, Ala., entered…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Feds are pushing back on the state of Alabama. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division warned 156 local law enforcement agencies they could lose their federal funding if they fail to comply with federal civil rights laws while enforcing the state’s harsh immigration laws, according to Talking Points Memo. “As…
