Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The battle to land the new headquarters of the FBI has turned ugly, NBC 4 Washington reports. In one case, a Fairfax County official took a swipe at Prince George’s County, saying it’s the place where the FBI would be busy because of criminals. “I made that comment in the context of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fairfax County in Virginia is lobbying the FBI to move its headquarters to an abandoned warehouse in Springfield, the Washington Post reports. The location is perfect, Fairfax officials said. It’s close to the Metro and major highways and the warehouse meets the needs of a new headquarters, the Post reported. It appears…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may have been a minor oversight the time — but the misstep could have prevented the rape of an 8-year-old girl. Tom Jackman of the Washington Post reports that immigration authorities failed to enter in a national data base the fingerprints of Salvador Portillo-Saravia before they deported him to El…
By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County (Va.) home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place. Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and…
UPDATE: 1:05 p.m. –– The Associated Press reported that that the gunman who fired shots may have a grievance against the U.S. Marine Corps. At a press conference Friday , John Perren, acting head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said he believes the person has a grievance against the Marine Corps, but not those…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 20-year-old Virginia man, who made threats against the TV show “South Park”, was arrested Wednesday on charges of providing material support to al Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia with links to al Qaeda, authorities said. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Fairfax County, Va., who according to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Under the category of “What’s Wrong With This Picture?”, an anger management counselor was in federal court Thursday for allegedly pulling a gun on two deputy U.S. Marshals in Northern Virginia over a parking flap, the Washington Post reports. The Post’s Tom Jackman reports that a federal judge ordered…
