Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent pointed a gun at the head of a Boy Scout and threatened to arrest him for snapping a picture of an agent near the Canadian border, KCCI reports. The Iowa Boy Scout troop was on a three-week trip to Alaska when the incident happened, Troop 111 leader Jim…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Think of the most dangerous states in the U.S. and you’re likely to name places like Michigan, New York, California and Texas. They have large cities with reputations for violence. But newly released FBI statistics show the most dangerous states are Tennessee, Nevada and Alaska, the USA Today reports. You are more…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Israel Keyes took the easy way out. After the serial killer accused of murdering at least 11 people committed suicide in his Anchorage jail cell in early December, the FBI compiled a list of Keyes’ likely victims, Reuters reports. Keyes was waiting trial for the murder of an Anchorage barista. The FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John C. Bates, the head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Blaine Sector, was removed from his post Monday after serving for six years as chief patrol agent for the sector, the Bellingham Herald reports. The reason, however, remained a mystery this morning after authorities declined to say what happened. Bates was in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI released blood-soaked, handwritten prose found beneath the body of an admitted serial killer in Alaska. While the writings don’t shed more light on his crimes, they open a window into the mind of an obsessed murderer, CNN reports. Israel Keyes, who killed himself in jail in December, said he killed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At first, the handwritten notes were too bloody to read. So the letters, which were found beneath Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes’s body after he committed suicide by slitting his wrists, were sent to an FBI lab in Virginia for restoration, the Associated Press reports. The notes provided investigators with no details…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The threat of terrorism always looms, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI, which can take some credit for averting some potential terrorist attacks, has put together a list of of some of the top terrorist cases of 2012. The following was posted on the FBI website. Alabama men arrested on…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com More than 100 people memorialized two slain U.S. Coastguard employees in Alaska last week as “full of honor, courage and passion for their families,” but the FBI offered little closure on their deaths. The L.A. Times reports that the April 12th shooting of Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and…
