Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and ATF are investigating what appears to be three attacks on Arkansas’ power grid over the past six weeks, THV 11 reports. “We believe that anyone that intentionally brings down power lines could potentially put themselves at risk and certainly the public at risk,” said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kimberly…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bad news continues to follow ATF. This time, the federal agency lost 420 million cigarettes, misused $162 million in profits from stings and conducted dozens of unauthorized investigations of illegal tobacco sales, the inspector general said, according to the Associated Press. Investigators were unable to locate 2.1 million cartons because of shoddy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s botched gun-buy sting in Milwaukee took another turn for the worse, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Karen Loebel said two more cases related to the sting need to be dismissed because the lead agent cannot be called as a witness. The case is the eighth…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although the ATF is tasked with tracing guns used in crimes, the agency was virtually left out of the Navy Yard shooting investigation, CBS News reports. That task was given to the FBI, which located the store where the gun was purchased within a few hours of the shooting. It was unusual…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A full-scale tactical team for the ATF, which took part in the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was activated to investigate the U.S. Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C., the Boston Globe reports. The team, based in D.C., is among five regional ATF tactical groups stationed across the nation….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF is proposing to end a loophole that allows people to obtain weapons such as machine guns though corporations or legal trusts without a background check, Courthouse News Service reports. Anyone wanting to buy a gun is required to file a photo and fingerprint card with the ATF and a local law…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s head of the Denver field division has been named the new director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Denver Post reports. The Navy announced Andrew Traver’s new position Friday. “It is an awesome privilege to be chosen to lead a top-tier, elite agency in NCIS, and I intend to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fair to say, it wasn’t easy getting there. But after all the political wrangling, B. Todd Jones was sworn in as the new director ATF at a ceremony Thursday at the White House. With his confirmation, Jones, who was the acting director, becomes the agency’s first permanent director in seven years….
