Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Miami police sergeant was indicted Thursday on charges that he planted cocaine on a suspect and stole drugs and money from dealers, The Miami Herald reports. The FBI said Raul Iglesias schemed with a former detective, Roberto Asanza, to steal cocaine and use it to pay off a confidential informant. Asanza…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents who raided the home of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack also searched the home of his brother and a key campaign donor who is a convicted sex offender Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. Mack denied wrongdoing in a brief statement, and the FBI declined to release details of the investigation. Questions…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Despite strong evidence that U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan wanted to kill civilians and supported suicide bombings before he killed 13 people in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood, Texas, the FBI never launched an investigation because of concerns over political correctness, The Associated Press reports, citing a lawmakers briefed on a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI wants to begin using tattoo identification to track down criminals and learn more about them, MSNBC reports. The plan is to add the data to the bureau’s Biometric Center of Excellence, which creates information such as fingerprints, irises and DNA. The idea is to help identify perpetrators through body art…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are times when car thieves hit the jackpot. And there are times they try ripping off an FBI agent. Early Wednesday at 5 a.m. in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens in New York, three men were breaking into a red Lexis sedan usually driven by an agent’s wife,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rafael J. Garcia, Jr., who served as director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC) in Quantico, Va., has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Intelligence Division in Los Angeles. Garcia joined the FBI in 1995 as a special agent in Phoenix where he investigated drug, organized…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Can the FBI force a phone company to turn over its customer records for an investigation? The question is at the center of a rare civil complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims the phone company was interfering with national security, reports the Wall Street Journal. The case, which…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert Mueller named a new special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kansas City Division, the Kansas City Star reports. Michael Kaste, who has worked with the FBI since 1988, is replacing Brian Truchon, who is now assigned to the bureau’s information technology engineering division. Most recently chief of the…
