Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New records show the FBI was secretly monitoring a U.S. Civil Rights Commission worker decades ago to keep a better eye on black activists in Memphis, Tenn., the Associated Press reports. The FBI collected photographs of Rosetta Miller-Perry, studied her political views and even investigated her love life, according to the Commercial…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican drug cartel is accused of using Bank of America Corp. to invest money generated from selling cocaine into U.S. horse racing, Bloomberg reports. Jose Trevino-Morales, the brother of the cartel’s alleged leader, was indicted by a grand jury June 11. “The ultimate goal of this money laundering operation was to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI employee says she saw angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed during the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Associated Press reports. Lillie Leonardi, a community affairs coordinator, was a liaison between law enforcement and the victims of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash when she arrived…
By Mark Naymik The Plain Dealer I recently shot and killed a woman. Leaning into her car’s open passenger-side window, I fired my weapon just as she pulled out a pistol, partially hidden under her thigh, and pointed it at me. I was lucky. I should have noticed the pistol sooner. Had I been a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Frustrated over the pace of an investigation into the 8-year abduction case of Natascha Kampusch, Austrian officials took the unusual step of requesting help from the FBI, The Independent reports. The Austrian Parliament made the recommendation after spotting inconsistencies in the case that suggest an accomplice may have been involved. Kampusch was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list originated during a card game between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and a reporter who was curious about the most slyest of fugitives, the LA Times reports. In 1949, Hoover gave the reporter a list of 10 names that would appear on the front page of…
By Steve Neavling An FBI agent executing a search warrant in an Ohio home shot and killed a man after he lunged at the agent with a knife, the Dayton Daily News reports. Several hours into the search, Fallacy Myers grabbed a knife and started stabbing himself. When authorities tried subduing him with a Taser,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A college professor who helped the FBI investigate mortgage fraud cases was indicted Thursday for running a similar scam, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Paul Tomko, an adjunct professor Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio, faces eight counts of fraud and conspiracy and making false statements to his probation officer. Tomko, 39, told…
