Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com More than 100 people memorialized two slain U.S. Coastguard employees in Alaska last week as “full of honor, courage and passion for their families,” but the FBI offered little closure on their deaths. The L.A. Times reports that the April 12th shooting of Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s adios for Don Oswald after a short stint as head of the FBI in Minneapolis. Oswald ,53, tells the Associated Press that he’s retiring to practice practice law. He eventually wants to become a judge. He was assigned to the job last May. “I really would like to pursue that…
By CNN In the wake of a multi-million-dollar online scam, more than 300,000 computer users worldwide could find themselves without Web access this summer. Luckily for them, it will only take a few clicks to clean things up. The FBI announced that it’s created a website where users can check whether they’re infected with malware…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and Homeland Security aren’t the only law enforcement agencies that have gotten permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones in the friendly sky. CNET reports that new documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from a lawsuit against the feds show that some very small police…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The wedding ring has been returned. The leaders of a Michigan militia, who was acquitted in a high-profile case in Detroit that involved allegations of killing cops and revolting against the government, has finally gotten his wedding ring after two years, Ed White of the Associated Press reported. The…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The disappearance of 6-year- old New York boy Etan Patz 33 years ago has never been resolved nor forgotten. The New York Times reports 40 police and FBI investigators swarmed a SoHo art storage space on Thursday morning, ready to disassemble the 13 by 62 foot space brick by brick in search…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In general, the entrepreneurial spirit should be lauded. Unfortunately, in this case, it was purely criminal. According to an FBI press release, 15 defendants allegedly registered 80 fake business names in Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, then used these to file for unemployment insurance benefits to the tune of $8.7 Million. Defendants reportedly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sikh-Americans, with their unique attire, have sometimes been mistaken in America as being part of some extremist groups and have been subject to hate crimes, according to the Indo-Asian News Service. Consequently, as many as 92 US lawmakers have urged the FBI to collect data on hate crimes against Sikh-Americans, the…
