By the Chicago Tribune Editorial Page Chicago We all know crime fighter Eliot Ness brought down Chicago mobster Al Capone, right? Not quite. Ness spent the best years of his life in a hunt to put Capone behind bars, but he had less to do with the final outcome than legend has it. Ness retired…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the FBI’s Chicago office continues to make terrorism a top priority, the bureau is facing pressure to help quell violence in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. But Robert Holley, the special agent in charge in Chicago, said his office lacks the staff to adequately combat violent crime. In addition to terrorism,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Answering calls to help crack down on Chicago’s violent crime rate, the new head of Chicago’s FBI office said Monday that he plans to find new ways for his agents to lend a hand, the Associated Press reports. But that won’t be easy. In one of his first interviews since taking the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The unsolved case of a baby stolen from his mother in Chicago nearly a half century ago is a nagging mystery to many. Now the FBI says it has “solid new leads” in the 1966 case, ABC News reports. The parents, Chester and Dora Fronczak, thought they found their son Paul in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Holley, one of the FBI’s premier counterterrorism experts, was tapped to head the bureau’s Chicago office, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The 55-year-old will join the Chicago office as the new Special Agent in Charge in October, the Sun-Times wrote. Holley worked in Chicago in the past as the office’s lead counterterrorism…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suburban Chicago terrorism suspect is expected to be charged today with trying to solicit the murder of an FBI agent, the Associated Press reports. Adel Daoud, who is accused of attempting to ignite what he thought was a car bomb outside of a downtown Chicago bar, is expected to plead not…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was almost 50 years ago when a woman dressed as a nurse snatched a newborn baby from a Chicago hospital. Now the FBI is reopening the case, the Chicago Tribune reports. The boy, named Paul Joseph Fronczak, was taken from Michael Ross Hospital in 1964. Fourteen months later, a boy who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cory B. Nelson, Special Agent in Charge of Chicago’s FBI Office, is leaving his post after just seven month to take a job in the private sector, the Chicago Sun Times reports. The 51-year-old notified the bureau Wednesday that he was leaving for a job with insurance and banking firm USAA in…
