Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com What seemed a childish prank may land one North Hollywood, Calif. teen in prison for up to 10 years. The L.A. Times reports that 18-year-old Adam Gardenhire was arrested on federal charges Wednesday for allegedly shining a green laser beam at a commercial Cessna plane and a Pasadena police helicopter. Gardenhire was…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com New roomier digs are coming in 2013 for one of the FBI’s smallest divisions. WAVY.com reports that the FBI will move its Hampton Roads regional headquarters from Norfolk to Chesapeake, Virginia. Special Agent in Charge John Boles told WAVY.com the new three-story office building will be about twice the size of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An Oregon man claims he was tortured in the United Arab Emirates by interrogators cooperating with the FBI, which was investigating a Portland mosque, the Los Angeles Times reports. Yonas Fikre said he was arrested in June and taken to an Abu Dhabi prison,according to the Times. It was there he…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Sticky-fingered John Patrick Weismiller will be breaking his habit with a year in prison. The Oregonian was sentenced last month for making a career out of petty shoplifting, after his prolific thievery caught the eye of the FBI. According to an FBI press release yesterday, 41-year- old Weismiller was caught on tape…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Harvey C. Flemister 85, a 27-year veteran of the bureau, died of congestive heart failure March 18 at his home in Silver Springs, Md. The Washington Post reports Flemister retired in 1977 as chief of the FBI intelligence division’s liaison section. Having started his career as a special agent in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shawn Henry, the FBI’s top cyber cop up until his recent retirement, is putting his FBI skill to use in the private sector. The Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett reports that ex-FBI official Shawn Henry is joining an Irvine, Calif. upstart computer security firm called CrowdStrike Inc. The Journal reports that…
By Amanda Palleschi Government Executive The FBI needs to develop a long-term strategy for filling counterterrorism division vacancies, a government watchdog found. Although the FBI has made some progress addressing a 40 percent vacancy rate — first reported in 2005 — in certain parts of its counterterrorism division, the bureau has yet to establish sufficient…
By Spencer S. Hsu, Jennifer Jenkins and Ted Mellnik The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The bombshell came at the most inopportune time. An FBI special agent was testifying in the government’s high-profile terrorism trial against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” suspected of plotting the first attack on the World Trade Center. Frederic Whitehurst, a…
