Chicago
FBI: Suspect in Wrigley Field Bombing Case May Have Been Entrapped by Informant
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A month before Sami Samir Hassoun placed what he thought was a bomb near Wrigley Field in Chicago in 2010, the FBI worried the undercover informant had entrapped the suspect and warned the informant to back off, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that Hassoun’s defense attorney disclosed the information in…
FBI, Local Police Track Down 1 of 3 Escaped Chicago Inmates
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A brazen jail escapee was arrested in Chicago Thursday without incident but a fellow inmate remains at large, the Huffington Post reports. Joseph “Jose” Banks, 37, and Kenneth Conley made a daring escape from a high-rise jail in Chicago and hopped a taxi shortly before 3 a.m. Tuesday. Local police and agents…
Former Head of San Antonio FBI Office to Take Over Chicago Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former head of the FBI office in San Antonio has been named special agent in charge of the Chicago office, the Chicago Tribune reports. The FBI is expected to announce the appointment of Cory B. Nelson this week. Nelson will replace retiring Robert Grant, who headed the Chicago office for 7…
Feds: Chicago Teen Who Pulled Trigger on Fake Car Bomb Was Not Entrapped
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors dismissed claims from the attorney of an Illinois teen Thursday that undercover FBI agents entrapped his client, the Chicago Tribune reports. Although Ahmed Daoud pulled the trigger on what he thought was a car bomb outside a Chicago bar, he only did so because he was manipulated by undercover FBI…
FBI: Teen Tried to Detonate What He Thought Was Real Bomb in Chicago in FBI Sting
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The investigation began with an email message about jihad and ended with a man pressing the trigger on what he believed to be a car bomb outside of a Chicago bar, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, after months of investigating the 18-year-old U.S. citizen from a Chicago suburb,…
Guns Used in Chicago Crimes Bought Close to Home
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Most guns recovered in Chicago were originally purchased in Illinois, not states with less-restrictive gun laws, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Citing a groundbreaking study at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, authorities said 58% of the 1,375 guns recovered in crimes in Chicago were bought in Illinois. About 45% came from Cook…
W. Larry Ford New Head of Chicago’s ATF
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com W. Larry Ford, a 28-year veteran of ATF, has been named the head of the agency’s Chicago division Ford. who had been in Chicago before, most recently served as the Assistant Director of ATF’s Office of Field Operations and oversaw a staff of over 3,000 special agents, industry operations investigators and…