By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Border Patrol agent accused of taking two people hostage was arrested Tuesday after an intense standoff that lasted several hours, the El Paso Times reports. Alberto Montelongo, 40, was involved in a domestic dispute with another off-duty Border Patrol agent, authorities said. Another man, who is not an agent,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An activist tied to the hacking group Anonymous was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of threatening an FBI agent and spreading stolen data. The Business Insider reports that Barrett Brown, who had faced more than 100 years behind bars, read from a lengthy statement before sentencing, saying…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man convicted in the 1990 shooting death of an FBI special agent has been ordered released from death row in Nevada, KLAS-TV reports. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du said Jose Echavarria must be released within 60 days barring the prosecutors willingness to retry the case. Du said then-Clark County District…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A controversial tactic by federal investigators from the DEA to create a bogus Facebook page using real information from a suspect has turned into a $134,000 settlement for the woman targeted on the social media page, the Associated Press reports. In the settlement with Sondra Arquiett, the DEA still did not…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are searching for a convicted drug lord who was released from prison after killing a DEA agent following a recent decision by a Mexican court, the Associated Press reports. The Mexican Supreme Court pressured a lower court to reverse the decision to release Rafael Caro Quintero in August 2013 after…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A member of an international crew of veteran snipers pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting to assassinate a DEA agent, the New York Post reports. Daniel “Nico” Gogel faces up to 28 years in prison for other crimes including conspiring to kill a confidential informant in Liberia and attempting to import cocaine…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is expected to plead guilty soon to charges of lying to the FBI and deleting information from his computer, the Associated Press reports. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Khairullozhon Matanov plans to enter guilty pleas as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal methamphetamine cases against 11 people may be in limbo after a DEA investigator in Roanoke, Va., admitted he received sexual favors in exchange for bogus offers of reduced sentences, WDBJ 7 reports. Kevin Moore admitted the offenses two weeks ago, and now many of the cases have been delayed to…
