By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Most Americans look forward to Friday, the gateway to the weekend. Bank robbers, it appears, are no different. The FBI’s bank crime statistics released Wednesday for the first quarter of 2010 — January through March — shows 241 bank crimes occurred on Friday, more than any other day of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday nominated U.S. Attorneys for the Middle District of North Carolina and the Western District of Michigan along with Marshals for the Northern District of Georgia and the Central District of California. For the U.S. Attorney post in Grand Rapids, Mi., the President nominated M. Scott…
Vo Duong Tran was an American success story who escaped Communist Vietnam as a kid and grew up to be an FBI agent. Problem was, he was crooked. Reporter Steve Warmbir of the Chicago Sun-Times tells the story of an FBI agent gone bad. Tran was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for planning…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A northern California man who was under investigation for allegedly threatening the lives of DEA agents and their families via the Internet, was arrested late last week after park rangers saw him wave a gun at a national monument near the Oregon border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that rangers…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some Arabic flashcards are at the center of a lawsuit against the FBI, police and the Transportation Security Administration. The Associated Press is reporting that a student is suing the agencies after he was handcuffed at Philadelphia International Airport in August and questioned about his Arabic flash cards. The AP reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Los Angeles has opened a new office in Imperial, Calif., to focus on Project Gunrunner, which targets illegal trafficking of arms to Mexico. The ATF said the office, located in the Southern California desert, will include special agents, industry operations investigators and…
Although it’s a shame that 3FN will likely set up shop again outside of the country, it’s good to know that these purveyors of illegal goods and child porn will no longer have a home in the U.S. By Brian Krebs Washingtonpost.com In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to…
By Brian Schott ticklethewire.com China has a well-known taste for trading in strange and exotic animal parts. Bear bile. Rhinoceros horn. But endangered sea turtle guitar picks? Qing Song, a Santa Rosa, Calif., woman, pleaded guilty Wednesday in San Francisco federal court to violating the Lacey Act by importing from China guitar picks and turtle…
