By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barbara Grohl, head of the Colorado Department of Revenue, has written a letter asking the DEA to loosen federal controls on marijuana and recognize its “potential medicinal value,” the Denver Post reports. The letter, written on Dec. 22, is the result of a law passed last year; that legislation required the…
By Felisa Cardona Denver Post DENVER — James F. Yacone is a decorated combat veteran, an accomplished criminal investigator and a graduate of West Point, but he doesn’t like to brag. The walls in his office at the Denver FBI are nearly bare, with just a sampling of photographs from his military service overseas despite…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Going for the federal death penalty is one thing. Putting a federal inmate to death is another. Since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988, three federal inmates have actually been executed and 60 are sitting on death row, according to Death Penalty Information Center. The last inmate to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James F. Yacone, a decorated Army combat veteran who was portrayed in the movie “Black Hawk Down”, and who last served as section chief in the Critical Incident Response Group for the FBI, has been named head of the bureau’s Denver office, the FBI and the Denver Post reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –The easy to purchase farm supplies and chemicals continue to concern the FBI. The bureau has sent out a reminder to farm supply stores and other businesses in the U.S. to watch for unusual or suspicious purchases of fertilizer, pesticides and other substances that could be converted into explosives, ABC…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents have been conducting raids in U.S. cities and targeting Mexican cartel members in response to last week’s murder of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico, the Associated Press reported. Another ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. was shot and wounded. “We are taking a stand and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James “Jim” Davis, a 25-year veteran of the FBI, who headed the FBI’s Denver office since 2008, has been named the new director of Colorado’s Department of Public Safety, the Associated Press reported. Davis, who retired from the FBI last month, was named to the post by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper,…
Armenian Power Gang Targeted in Raid: MyFoxLA.com
