By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trouble continues for the embattled Secret Service. This time an off-duty officer from the Uniformed Division was arrested Friday in Washington D.C., The USA Today reports. It wasn’t immediately clear what the agent is accused of doing, but he will be charged with one misdemeanor account of detraction of property. The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An American trucker who refused to answer questions from the Border Patrol was yanked out of his truck by agents after they smashed his window as a camera rolled, the Houston Chronicle reports. The truck driver was arrested at a checkpoint near Falfurrias in Texas, about 60 miles north of the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested and suspended after being accused of fatally shooting a 27-year-old Moreno Valley man in the southern California town of East Hemet, the Press Enterprise reports. Authorities arrested John Demery, 40, who is assigned to the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector Newton-Azrak Station in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Perpetrators wearing “FBI” vests and badges around their neck tried to kidnap women in two separate incidents in Buffalo, the Buffalo News reports. The fake agents handcuffed the victims. Police stopped an SUV in which the perpetrators and a victim were riding. The Buffalo News wrote that the victim believed she…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Canadian woman is accused of packing her checked luggage full with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammo and 33 pounds of marijuana, NBC New York reports. The TSA found the items stuffed into household items like baby wipes, lemonade mix and cat litter. The 24-year-old woman from Scarborough, Ontario,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A New York man is accused of trying to buy guns for the terror group ISIS and has been charged with terrorism-related counts following an FBI investigation, NBC reports. The FBI alleges Mufid Elfgeeh wanted to kill American soldiers and Shiite Muslims in the U.S. He also wanted to recruit potential…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It has become almost too common: Travelers are caught with guns in the carry-on bags. Even after Sept. 11, when much more innocuous objects were banned from flights, people bring guns to airports, often because they forgot they had the weapon on the them. WCIV reports that a South Carolina man…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested Trenton Mayor Tony Mack and others this morning as part of an ongoing corruption investigation, NBC 4 New York reports. Among the potential charges facing the mayor is conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion. Also taken into custody were top campaign contributor Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni and six others,…
