By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Warren T. Bamford, head of the Boston FBI, officially retired Friday after heading up the office since 2007. Assistant special agent in charge James C. Burrell has been named the acting special agent in charge. Under Bamford’s reign, the office produced a number of high-profile cases including one that involved a…
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 Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Warren Bamford, a well-respected figure in the FBI who heads the Boston office, will retire next month after 24 years with the agency to take a job with a private utility, the Boston Globe reported. Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the Boston FBI, told the Globe Bamford’s last day will be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The failed Times Square car bomb incident has led the FBI to the Northeast sector of the country where agents have executed search warrants, CNN reported, saying cash couriers seemed to be the target. The raids took place in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. By afternoon the Justice Department had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Top Ten Fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger of Boston may be a cold and calculated killer, but apparently he does like literature. The Boston Globe reports authorities last week circulated posters of Bulger, 80, and his girlfriend Catherine Greig, 59, at bookstores around the ocean front city of Victoria in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Robert K. Wittman claims in his upcoming book that his efforts to reclaim stolen art from the biggest art heist in U.S. history was undermine by a supervisor, the Boston Globe reports. The Globe reports that Wittman makes his claim in his yet to be released book: “Priceless:…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James C. Trainor, Jr., an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, is hopping over to the New York office to become the special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division. Trainor joined the FBI in 1996 and was first assigned to the Chicago office where…
