By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Frank Scafidi, a popular figure in the FBI who was known for his keen sense of humor, is running a write-in campaign for Sacramento County Sheriff. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Scafidi, 58, who is retired from the FBI, has a campaign staff made up of his family and a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man shot and wounded by an off-duty FBI agent in Honolulu on Sunday was brandishing an airsoft gun that shoots plastic pellets, but resembles a real gun, the Honolulu Star Bulletin reported. “The important thing is not what kind of weapon he was carrying, but the perception of the agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brenna Marie Reilly had quite a fantasy. Now comes the reality. Reilly, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., to impersonating an FBI agent, a fantasy she played out to the fullest. She even hired an assistant. The reality is that she faces a maximum sentence of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago cop Victor Brown found himself on the wrong side of the law Monday when he was arrested by the FBI and internal affairs. The Chicago Tribune reports that Brown, 36, faces charges of lying to FBI agents about taking cash from another cop in exchange for a promise that he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be that not every airline was given emergency notification that NY car bomber Faisal Shahzad had been put on the no fly list? Newsweek’s DeClassified blog says YES. It reports that the FBI asked Homeland Security officials to limit the notification to a select number of airlines out of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An off-duty FBI agent shot and wounded a 27-year-old man in Honululu on Sunday around 1 p.m., the Honolulu Advertiser reported. The man was out on bail after posing as a cop on a college campus. The paper reported that Martin Boegel, 27, of Makiki, was brandishing a gun outside his…
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