By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Paso FBI agent is headed off to prison. John Shipley, now formerly of the FBI, was sentenced Tuesday in El Paso to two years in prison for illegally selling more than $118,000 worth of guns without a license and lying to ATF agents about the sales. U.S. District Judge…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 55-year-old Texas cop had a nice little thing going — that is until he got busted by ATF and the Texas Rangers. Authorities charged that Harry Leroy Kelly, as a cop with the Cleveland Police Department in Liberty County, Tex., sold guns and ammunition from the evidence room. He is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Andrew Traver, head of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Chicago could soon be nominated to take the top job in the agency, Al Kamen of the Washington Post reports. The Post said Traver would be the first-ever Senate-confirmed ATF director. A source has told ticklethewire.com that two…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — From Capitol Hill to the Caribbean, a controversy is growing over a decision by Virgin Islands officials to charge a federal agent with second-degree murder in a 2008 shooting. The agent, William Clark, remains on the job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives —…
By Allan lengel ticklethewire.com There are mailboxes. And then there are mailboxes that belong to federal prosecutors. As for the latter, those mailboxes get special attention. The Palm Beach Post reports that the FBI, ATF and U.S. Postal Service are investigating a firework on Sunday that triggered a fire in the mailbox of an assistant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and ATF have joined the probe in Mexico into a July 15 car bomb in the border town of Juarez that killed three people, the El Paso Times reported. The bomb, made of C-4 plastic, was detonated by cell phone. It was the first time drug cartels had used…
By Allan Lengel and Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com The ATF office in Boston said Tuesday’s incident in Maine in which ATF agents shot and killed a biker who was named in a 27-person federal indictment is under review. “The shooting’s under review,” James McNally, a spokesman for the ATF office in Boston told the Boston Globe,…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF agents rounding up more than two dozen members of the American Outlaw Association motorcycle gang in a seven-state sweep, killed one of the members Tuesday in a shoot out just south of Portland, Me., authorities said. Michael Campbell, a spokesman for ATF in Washington, said agents went to…
