Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 16-year-old boy survived a five-and-a-half-hour trip in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen, the FBI said. CBS News reports that the boy was questioned by the the FBI after he was discovered Sunday on the tarmac…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Separate corruption investigations led to the arrests of two public officials in North Carolina and California and to the raid of the office of a New York state senator, the Washington Post reports. Hundreds of federal agents descended on offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, arresting several people including state Democratic…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com California may no longer be the nation’s bank robbery capital. The Latin Post reports that the FBI’s L.A. office, which includes seven counties, is handling far fewer bank robbery cases than in the past. Robberies peaked in the early 1990s, with as many as 28 bank robberies a day in the counties…
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com FBI agents are in Hawaii searching for the suspect of a two bombings in California that targeted companies that tested animals for products. Hawaii News Now reports that authorities are also erecting signs offering a $250,000 for the capture of Daniel Andreas San Diego, who is suspected of two bombings in 2003….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The 1976 string of stabbings in California was horrific and never yielded much of a clue about the suspect. Now, the FBI is expected to announce today a possible link between the five homicides in San Mateo County and a murder in Reno during the same time period, KTVU reports. The bureau…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At first glance, Daniel Ramirez looked like a hapless taveller on crutches. But when the 21-year-old was on a train traveling from California to Chicago, DEA task force officers said he looked nervous and suspicious, The Smoking Gun reports. More alarming, his cast was “uneven in texture, size and shaping not consistent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent suffered head trauma after he was struck by a large rock hurled from over the international border fence in the Tecate area in California, CBS8 reports. The agent, whose identity wasn’t revealed, was patrolling the area on an all-terrain vehicle with other agents when the 6-inch rock…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The high life is expensive. Just ask Lorne Leslie “Hammer” Jones, a former Border Patrol agent. Jones was found guilty Friday of helping smugglers enter California from Mexico to help finance his ritzy lifestyle, UPI reports. Feds say Jones took as much as a half-million dollars in payoffs in exchange for aiding…
