By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suspect in a Colorado bank robbery shot an FBI agent in the leg and then fatally turned the gun on himself Friday afternoon. KUSA-TV Denver reports that the agent, whose identity has not yet been released, was not seriously injured and was treated at a nearby hospital for non-life-threatening injuries…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The discovery that three teenage girls were trying to join the Islamic State in Syria has raised plenty of questions. Among them: How did they get to Europe without anyone noticing and what prompted the girls, ages 16, 16 and 17, to make the trip? The Associated Press reports that a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI believes three teenage girls from suburban Denver were headed to Syria to join Islamic State militants in Syria. The Associated Press reports that two sisters, ages 17 and 15, and their friend, age 16, were stopped at the Frankfurt, Germany en route to Turkey and then Syria. The sisters…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa was considered a polished politicians and potential challenger to Gov. John Hickenlooper. Now the FBI is helping the Colorado Bureau of Investigations conduct a problem into Maketa, who is accused of having sex with three women and then promoting them to top-paying jobs, the Denver…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of robbing banks wrote error-free demand notes that prompted the FBI to dub him the “good Grammar Bandit,” the Associated Press reports. He’s accused of robbing four banks in metro Denver in less than a week. His letters were “perfectly typed, spelled and punctuated,” the AP wrote. The suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman boarded a flight on her way to wage jihad in the Middle East. But the Associated Press reports that authorities arrested her April 18 at the Denver International Airport, where she told agents she was en route to the Middle East to help start a holy war,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents are joining an investigation into a suspicious Colorado fire over the weekend that was so hot that flattened the apartment building and melted cars parked across the street, the Denver Post reports. The 11 p.m. Saturday fire broke out in an apartment building that is under construction in Glendale, which…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s head of the Denver field division has been named the new director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Denver Post reports. The Navy announced Andrew Traver’s new position Friday. “It is an awesome privilege to be chosen to lead a top-tier, elite agency in NCIS, and I intend to…
