By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-ATF official Bernie La Forest is at it again. The prolific La Forest has just knocked out his third mystery novel, “A Matter of Lex Talionis,” the story of a Lt. Andre de Avilés, who heads the Detroit Police Department’s Intel Squad. Described as a forty-somethin’, ‘balls-to-the-wall” detective known for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-ATF official Bernie La Forest is at it again. The prolific La Forest has just knocked out his third mystery novel, “A Matter of Lex Talionis,” the story of a Lt. Andre de Avilés, who heads the Detroit Police Department’s Intel Squad. Described as a forty-somethin’, ‘balls-to-the-wall” detective known for fighting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of two men shot Wednesday by an ATF agent in St. Louis died Thursday morning, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Myron Pollard, who turned 18 earlier this month, was warned by a judge less than a month ago that he would be imprisoned or dead if he didn’t turn around his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ATF agent shot and wounded two men in St. Louis on Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper reported that ATF agents and police were trying to arrest the two men when the shooting occurred. The men were hospitalized and one was in critical condition.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com W. Larry Ford, a 28-year veteran of ATF, has been named the head of the agency’s Chicago division Ford. who had been in Chicago before, most recently served as the Assistant Director of ATF’s Office of Field Operations and oversaw a staff of over 3,000 special agents, industry operations investigators and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A crime drama about an ATF agent is in the making. The Hollywood Reporter reports that writer John Hlavin has sold to ABC a show “Shelter” about “an ATF Agent whose real working-class Chicago life collides with his flashy Los Angeles cover when his wife is exposed to his criminal world,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A top official of the ATF who was involved in the controversial gun operation “Fast and Furious” is working full time for investment bank J.P. Morgan while also collecting a government salary, according to two Republican lawmakers, Sari Horwitz of the Washington Post reports. Deputy Assistant ATF Director William McMahon has been…
By Evan Perez Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives brings fewer than a hundred alcohol and tobacco cases a year. It now plays second fiddle to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on explosives. And its skill at catching firearms violators is in doubt after the flawed probe known…
