By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine former DEA administrators have fired off a letter to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. asking that he step in if Californians in November vote to legalize marijuana, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that the administrators wrote an Aug. 24 letter to Holder asking that he file a lawsuit challenging…
In these small little towns in California, not only are some of the politicians extremely corrupt, but they’ve become places where gangs and Mexican and Colombian drug cartels operate freely. Investigative reporter Jeffrey Anderson examines the problem. By Jeffrey Anderson Washington Times BELL, Calif. — The gang graffiti that coats freeway overpasses, exit signs and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary on Thursday gave the nod to U.S. Attorney nominees in California, Kansas and Pennsylvania, the website Main Justice reported. The matter now goes before the full Senate for a vote. The nominees include: Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California; Barry R. Grissom for Kansas…
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…
