By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent has been charged with assaulting a 14-year-old immigrant for having a cellphone in detention, the Los Angeles Times reports. Aldo Francisco Arteaga of Tucson was arrested Thursday on felony charges of assaulting a minor. CBP officials said Arteaga surrendered Thursday after Jan. 3o video showed him assaulting…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The militarization of local law enforcement has become a hot button topic since police in Ferguson employed their weapons during the recent protests, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. What’s not getting as much attention is surveillance equipment that some police forces are getting from federal law enforcement. In Tacoma, Wash., police were using…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Guessing the correct result and even the basic rationale of the Supreme Court’s cell phone case could be considered a minor achievement,…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Guessing the correct result and even the basic rationale of the Supreme Court’s cell phone case could be considered a minor achievement,…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The U. S. Supreme Court will hear argument today on two cases involving warrantless searches of cell phones. The case is probably…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities will make their case before federal judges that warrantless tracking of cell phone locations is legal, CNET reports. Federal prosecutors don’t want to ask a judge to approve a warrant before obtaining stored records that reveal the constant movements of mobile phone users over a two-month period, according to CNET….
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Lee Baca was not happy about a cell phone that turned up in a Los Angeles County jail. Baca is the LA County Sheriff, and the cell phone was smuggled to an inmate — an FBI informant — by agents of the FBI, according to the LA Times. The Feds are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A dying mother’s request helped the FBI nab her her son, who had been on the lam for 36 years. He had escaped from prison while serving life for a deadly San Francisco robbery. The Sacramento FBI Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force on Friday arrested William Walter Asher III, 66,…
