By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF may be closer to solving some of the fires that were set in Ferguson on the night of the grand jury decision, CBS St. Louis reports. With a reward of $10,000 being offered for information leading to the arrest of an arsonist, the ATF has been fielding tips and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents did not commit “outrageous” misconduct by luring suspects into a robbery of a fictitious drug house, a federal appellate panel ruled Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The decision reverses a district court judge’s earlier ruling that the suspects’ due process rights were violated when the ATF enticed them…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF is investigating an intentionally set fire at a church where Michael Brown’s father regularly attended in Ferguson, Mo., the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Flood Christian Church was among dozens of buildings that were torched following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who shot…
By Paul Giblin The Arizona Republic The ATF is headed back to court in a long-running legal battle with a former undercover agent who infiltrated the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. The U.S. Department of Justice and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Court of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Athens. Ga. man accused of shooting an ATF agent last month was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury, Online Athens reports. The suspect, 21-year-old Steven Maurice “Stevo” McKinley, is suspected of shooting the agent during a Sept. 30 undercover operation at the Airport Mini Mart. While planning to purchase narcotics…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was one of the darkest days in ATF’s history – Feb. 28, 1993. Four agents were killed that morning, instigating what would be a 51-day standoff that ended with a raging fire and the deaths of about 80 Davidians members. To remember that fateful day, an architectural firm donated a wooden…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A fisherman’s catch in a drought-dry dam at Castaic Lake in California was quite the surprise. Instead of pulling out a fish, the Castaic man reeled in a bag containing a gun and badge issued to an ATF agent, CBSLA.com reports. The water line has receded 151 feet, the Los Angeles…
By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal agent was in critical but stable condition Tuesday night and a suspect was dead after a shooting during an undercover law enforcement operation in Athens. A second suspect has been charged in the case. State and federal officials told reporters an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent…
