Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a mother of five as he was pulled away on the hood of her car has a long history of misconduct, her family said in a wrongful termination suit against the agency, the Associated Press reports. The suit, filed Friday on behalf of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James Thomas Blasingame, a former FBI agent who worked in numerous offices across the country and investigated fraud, a mass murder and the Ku Klux Klan, died Tuesday, the Athens Banner-Herald reports. He was 76. Blasingame joined the FBI in 1954 and served as a special agent in Buffalo, N.Y., Newark, N.J.,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com H. Edward Tickel Jr., a notorious ex-FBI specialist and safe-cracking expert who was convicted in a jewelry theft scheme and other crimes, died without any media attention in March, Newsmax reports. Tickel was 71 and left behind a checkered past. He was accused of breaking into the FBI headquarters credit union, stealing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI says it has lost records from when agents monitored Marilyn Monroe, the Associated Press reports. Hoping to learn more about the star on the 50th anniversary of her death this month, the Associated Press was trying to get the most complete record of her files including how the bureau investigated…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Agent Steven Ivens went missing more than two months ago. His family’s worst fears came true Monday when two hikers found the 35-year-old’s body in a wooded area in Burbank, Calif., the Associated Press reports. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office is to determine the cause of death and time of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The owner of a Texas trucking company is demanding the DEA compensate him for an undercover sting that led to his employee’s death and the damage of a company truck, the San Antonio Express reports. Truck company owner Craig Patty said he had no idea Lawrence Chapa was working undercover for…
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in Miami Beach after a traffic stop Saturday, NBC 6 Miami reports. After talking to the driver of the car he pulled over, the agent was walking back to his car when his gun went off and shot him in the leg….
By Steve Neavling An FBI agent executing a search warrant in an Ohio home shot and killed a man after he lunged at the agent with a knife, the Dayton Daily News reports. Several hours into the search, Fallacy Myers grabbed a knife and started stabbing himself. When authorities tried subduing him with a Taser,…
