By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Jay Dobyns, who has become a controversial agent at ATF, is finally getting his day in court. Trial begins in the U.S. Court of Federal on Monday addressing claims in his lawsuit of breach of contract. Dobyns claims the agency failed to abide by a 2007 written contract to protect him…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some ATF agents involved with a botched gun-buying storefront operation in Milwaukee face disciplinary action, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The investigation was so bungled that agents last year had their guns stolen and their storefront pillaged. The Journal Sentinel discovered through a letter sent to Congress that the Justice Department is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Philadelphia’s new ATF chief, Essam “Sam” Rabadi, wasted no time to impress when he became an agent in the 1990s, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Just a few years on the job, Rabadi played a major role in breaking up a team of thieves who were committing robberies in Baltimore and New York….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The long awaited hearings for B. Todd Jones for ATF director will begin next month. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on June 4. Jones, the U.S. Attorney in Minneapolis, could catch some grief from some Republicans in the Senate. As we’ve seen…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is investigating the high-profile blunders of the ATF in Milwaukee following embarrassing mistakes reported by the the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the newspaper reports. In letters to two members of Congress, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the sting raised “significant management issues related to the oversight and management” of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF agents who were conducting a sting operation in Milwaukee last summer allowed a felon with a violent history to leave a store without taking him into custody or tracking him, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Bobby Ball, who is a felon with a history of violence, never returned to the store…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Twenty-year veteran Essam Rabadi became the new special agent in charge this month, Philly.com reports. Rabadi, a native of Yonkers, N.Y., became an ATF special agent in 1992, three years after he started off as a local police officer, Philly.com reported. Rabadi supervised the Philadelphia division’s drug-trafficking task force from 2000 to…
Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial It is an article of faith among many opponents of additional restrictions on gun ownership that the U.S. “doesn’t need new gun laws; it only needs to enforce the ones we’ve already have.” For the past year, the difficulties of enforcing the nation’s gun laws have been on full display in the…
