Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Disturbing images have surfaced showing Border Patrol staff teaching children to shoot paintball guns at an effigy of an illegal immigrant, the San Diego Free Press reports. “The target is dressed to resemble a migrant and is located within 100 feet from Virginia Avenue where actual persons have been killed by Border…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF used some questionable tactics in investigations that included exploiting mentally challenged people, an investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel showed. After reviewing thousands of documents, the paper found: ■ ATF agents befriended mentally disabled people to drum up business and later arrested them in at least four cities in addition…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A young girl in pink pajamas is pictured pointing a Kalashnikov-style assault rifle. Children also are posed flashing gang signs. The chilling images were found when the FBI and LSAP officers conducted raids late last week targeting the Rollin’ 30s Harlem Crips gang, the New York Daily News reports. More than 30…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Firearms killed more than 550 children ages 12 and under between 2006 and 2010, the Associated Press reports, citing FBI records. The number of deaths which do not include accidental shootings, have been relatively consistent throughout the five-year period – about 112 annually. Those deaths are getting closer scrutiny following the shooting…
By Anne-Marie O’Connor and William Booth The Washington Post SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico — On a sunny afternoon last week, when the streets of this mountain mining city were filled with schoolchildren and parents hurrying home from work, gunmen entered a tiny apartment and started firing methodically. The assassins killed everyone: the family matriarch and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Child prostitution continues to be a nationwide problem. With that in mind, over the past few days, the FBI along with local and state police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country V, in which 69 child prostitutes were “rescued”, the FBI…
By Caitlin Osborne ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI announced Monday that it had rescued 52 children involved in underage prostitution over the past three days and arrested nearly 700 people including 60 pimps. Dubbed “Operation Cross Country IV”, the FBI said it teamed up with local and state police law enforcement and the National Center…
