By Allan Lengel For AOL News Despite a sour economy and disturbingly high unemployment, property crime dropped in 2009 for the seventh year in a row, according to FBI statistics released today. Violent crime also declined for the third consecutive year. The FBI statistics show the murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate dropped by 7.3 percent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The anti-Islam sentiment, triggered by the planned mosque in New York near ground zero, appears to be spreading around the country. The FBI is investigating vandalism that occurred at a mosque under construction in Phoenix a few weeks ago, the Associated Press reports. The vandalism included broken glass and graffiti. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-FBI agent accused of threatening to kill his estranged wife and the head of the Dallas FBI should have been dismissed 18 years ago after he was involved in a seven-hour standoff with the SWAT team, the former head of the office told the Dallas Morning News. Oliver “Buck” Revell,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atlanta cop Lucius T. Solomon got tripped up in an FBI sting and will likely head off to prison. The 31-year-old, now a former cop, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to corruption and drug charges. He could get up to life in prison at sentencing, which is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Powerful Maryland state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie, 73, finds himself in big trouble. The feds in Baltimore on Wednesday indicted him for allegedly taking more than $245,000 in bribes to use his office to help a grocery chain, Shoppers Food and Pharmacy. Two former Shoppers Food officials were also…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News FBI agents deal with trouble. That’s what they do for a living. But lately, down in Texas, for some inexplicable reason, FBI agents have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. In fact, in the past nine months, four agents — who are all now ex-agents —…
UPDATE: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m — The Associated Press reports that Dutch prosecutors said the two Yemeni men were released without charge Wednesday after investigators found no evidence of a terror plot. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — All the hoopla over two Yemeni men detained in Amsterdam appears to be nothing, federal law enforcement sources…
By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — In the federal government, there are inside people and outside people, those who work in the bowels of the bureaucracy and others who seek out the media glare. Timothy P. Murphy is an inside guy. The FBI’s new deputy director speaks in the language of corporate…
