By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Border Patrol agent was killed and another injured in a two-car accident Thursday morning near Laredo, Texas. The San Antonio Express-News reports that the agents were driving near the Cotulla station at 1:40 a.m. when a car traveling the wrong way crashed into them. The collision killed a six-year…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com How could 22-year-old Victor White III fatally shoot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car in New Iberia, La.? The Louisiana State Police completed its investigation of the unusual case, but the 16th Judicial District Attorney Phil Haney said his office will await the results of a separate…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James P. Mallon Jr., a retired FBI special agent who helped crack down on organized crime, died after a battle with cancer on Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Mallon was working in Detroit when the FBI tapped him to work in the Organized Crime program in Atlantic City, where he shined. Mallon…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An American citizen died in U.S. Border Patrol custody after paramedics erroneously concluded that he was faking a seizure, according to a medical examiner’s report, Al Jazeera reports. Steven Keith, 58, died on Christmas at a Southern California checkpoint facility about 20 miles from the border. The cause of Keith’s death is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mark J. Mikulski, a supervisory agent at the FBI for nearly 20 years, died at the age of 50 following a fight with multiple myeloma. The Washington Post reports that Mikulski died Feb. 25 at Reston Hospital Center in Virginia. Mikulski led technology programs that detected terrorist threats. A native of Buffalo,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Mexican government is incensed over the latest fatal Border Patrol shooting of an undocumented migrant on the California-Mexico border. CNN reports that Mexican authorities accused the agency of using excessive force against a Mexican national Jesus Flores Cruz, who was shot after an agent was hit with a rock. The agent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Agent Edward Preciado-Nuno will still service an 8-to-20-year sentence for killing his son’s girlfriend in Las Vegas in 2008. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Nevada Supreme Court rejected his challenge, which argued that a juror wasn’t impartial. The court disagreed, saying the juror had “demonstrated the ability to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Details of the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near the Arizona-Mexico border in 2010 were largely unknown – until now. The Associated Press reports that armed men had sneaked into the U.S. to rob marijuana smugglers when the attack happened, according to an account given by prosecutors. Watching the men from…
