By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A seven-member FBI team has gone to Sweden to help sort out the the botched explosion over the weekend that killed a 28-year-old suicide bomber in a crowded shopping district in Stockholm, the New York Times reported. The Times reported that the FBI experts specialize in analyzing bomb fragments, and that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Trial is underway in Las Vegas for retired FBI agent Edward Preciado-Nuno, who is accused of murdering his son’s girlfriend in November 2008. His son had been trying to evict the girlfriend from the home. Preciado-Nuno, 63, claims he killed girlfriend Kimberly Long after she attacked him with a hammer. He…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. delivered a forceful speech Friday night before the Muslim Advocates’ Annual Dinner in suburban San Francisco, strongly defending the FBI stings involving terrorism. “Our nation’s law enforcement professionals have consistently demonstrated not just their effectiveness, but also their commitment to the highest standards of professional conduct,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In this turbulent era of WikiLeaks, this hardly seems shocking. Authorities are alleging in a search warrant that a Navy sailor based at Fort Bragg passed classified documents to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign intelligence agent, the Associated Press reports. In exchange, he was given cash. AP reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A FBI employee in San Francisco is in big trouble as a result of financial statement she made, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The paper reported that Rachelle Thomas-Zuill, 39, who conducted background investigations on FBI agents for security clearances in San Francisco, was charged in court documents in San Jose…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Herbert Brown, section chief of the FBI’s gang and drug section at headquarters, will take over the Sacramento FBI office in January, the Sacramento Bee reported. Brown, 53, a former fullback with the UC Davis football team in the 1970s, replaces Drew Parenti, who retired in October. He’ll supervise 160 agents,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent from Milwaukee is credited with taking down the “king of spam”, the Associated Press is reporting. Authorities say he allegedly generated 10 billion unwanted emails a day. The suspected spam king, Oleg Nikolaenko, 23, of Russia, was arrested last month during a visit to Las Vegas, AP reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal and local officials broke ground Wednesday for a new $60 million, four-story FBI field office in Portland, Ore., The Oregonian newspaper reported. It is third FBI field in the nation under construction. The new office is part of an effort by the FBI to update offices and make them more…
