By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, who began his career with ATF in 1990 in Los Angeles, has been named special agent in charge of the agency’s Atlanta division. Sweetow spent several years assigned in the Arson and Explosives group, and served as a Certified Explosives Specialist. His duties included being part of ATF’s elite…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Citing mentally disabled issues, a federal judge in Cleveland has taken the death penalty off the table in an upcoming trial of a man accused in the arson death of eight children and one adult, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ruled last week that a…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Not everyone rejoiced the day after President Obama was elected as the first African-American President. In fact, Massachusetts resident Benjamin Haskell, 23, celebrated by burning down a yet to be completed, predominantly African-American church in Springfield, Mass., on Nov. 5, 2008, the morning after the election, authorities said. On Wednesday, he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is offering a $5,000 reward for for information leading to the arrest in the January arson fire at the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a beach community in San Diego County. Authorities say sometime between 8:00 p.m. on Jan. 24, and 6:30 a.m. on Jan….
Johnny Cash was one of the artists who played the venue By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced Monday that the fire that destroyed The Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Ind. on Sept. 19 was intentionally set. The Opry, which was not affiliated with the Grand Ole Opry…
The FBI behavioral unit at Quantico has had its hand in many cases over the years. Sometimes it has been right on and other times — not even close. It may be a science, but it’s impossible to be right all the time. BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Newsday Before they ever made an arrest, Nassau…
A tragedy ends with another tragedy. By Clarence Williams and Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON –A 64-year-old Northwest Washington man who was charged with causing the largest wildfire in Minnesota in 90 years apparently shot and killed himself yesterday in his back yard. Stephen G. Posniak, an outdoorsman, retired federal employee and former…
It may be that this country is not quite ready to give up on the the great political race of 08. Or maybe it’s just a crazy arsonist? By The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An accelerant was poured around the exterior of Gov. Sarah Palin’s church before fire heavily damaged the building, federal investigators…
