Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has classified as suspicious the cause of death of a 62-year-old Virginia woman found dead aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the Washington Post reports. Authorities said the woman’s husband found the body. FBI agents boarded the ship Monday during its scheduled return to Baltimore, the Washington Post reported. An…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The family of a Border Patrol agent killed in a firefight along the Arizona-Mexico is suing federal officials, saying the botched “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation put law enforcement authorities at grave danger, the Associated Press reports. The lawsuit is the latest fallout from an investigation that allowed gun-smuggling rings to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One thing is for sure: A mother of five was killed in her car by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near San Diego. Why the agent opened fire last week on Valeria Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, remains the subject of an investigation and much debate in the heavily Latino suburb of Chula Vista,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators in helicopters and on ATVs and horseback scoured the desert near the U.S.-Mexico line Tuesday to piece together what happened when a Border Patrol agent was fatally shot and his partner wounded in Arizona, the Associated Press reports. Authorities identified the slain agent as Nicholas Ivie, 30, who lived in Sierra…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating whether a Houston police officer used excessive force by fatally shooting a double-amputee in a wheelchair at a home for the mentally ill, the Associated Press reports. The AP said police were responding to a call about an irate one-armed, one-legged man who wouldn’t come down. One of…
