By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge has ruled that the DEA is not required to compensate a Texas trucking company for damaging a tractor trailer that the agency used during a wild 2011 sting without permission. The Washington Post reports that the tractor trailer was riddled with bullets after the sting ended in the execution-style…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent in Arizona is accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl while visiting his fiancé’s friend and her children, The Tucson News Now reports. Jeremy Tyler Cole, of Sierra Vista, was charged March 27 on one count of child molestation. Cole was arrested by Chandler Police on Friday. The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for trying to derail a Utah investigation involving kickbacks from defense contractors. ABC News reports that Robert Lustyik Jr., 52, created a dossier of fake interviews with former FBI agents to make it appear as if he were…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge has ordered the FBI to release documents detailing its surveillance of Muslims and recruiting efforts in Northern California, The San Francisco Gate reports. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of San Francisco said the FBI must disclose previously redacted or omitted information about the programs used to conduct surveillance of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Justice Department attorneys are under scrutiny after a federal judge said they may have misled him about when President Obama’s immigration plans were implemented. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who has blocked President Obama‘s immigration executive action, hinted that sanctions could be forthcoming if he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A source tells The New York Daily News: “I have never heard anything like this happening before — ever.” John Marzulli of the Daily News writes that the court may have to be a do-over of the verdict in the federal Brooklyn trial of convicted Al Qaeda terrorist Abid Naseer. Apparently…
The FBI on Wednesday arrested three Brooklyn men accused of planning to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism, the bureau announced Wednesday. If their plans with ISIS didn’t work out, two of them intended to launch terror attacks in New York, the federal government alleged in a complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s immigration plans have been placed on hold by a federal judge in Texas so that states have time to argue their case against the president’s controversial executive action. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen blocked the plan with a preliminary injunction, ABC News reports. The judge said the injunction was…
