By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The economy may still suck, but more thieves are not turning to banks for financial relief, according to the FBI. The FBI bank robbery stats released Monday showed that the number of bank robberies, larcenies, burglaries and extortions dropped by a little over 11 percent in 2009 from 6,065…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the head of the New York FBI, the agency’s largest office, is under internal investigation in connection with an alleged affair he had with an underling in management, sources familiar with the situation told ticklethewire.com., which first reported the story. Demarest, who has headed the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has been struggling a long time to catch up to the 21st century when it comes to having a top-flight computer system. The New York Times reports that the struggle continues and that the agency “has suspended work on parts of its huge computer overhaul, dealing the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. law enforcement started to flex its muscle Thursday in an attempt to find out who killed three people last Saturday who were tied to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The Associated Press reported that more 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers conducted a broad…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the head of the New York FBI, the agency’s largest office, is under internal investigation in connection with an alleged affair he had with an underling in management, sources familiar with the situation told ticklethewire.com., which broke the story. Demarest, who has headed the New…
N.C. Atty. General Roy Cooper/state photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two ex-assistant directors of the FBI have been tasked with reviewing North Carolina’s crime lab, the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office said. The review by ex-FBI agents Chris Swecker and Mike Wolf comes in wake of “a groundbreaking exoneration of a man wrongly accused in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The FBI said Tuesday night that it had not ruled out the possibility that three people with ties to the U.S. consulate were murdered Saturday in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez as a result of a mistake in identity. But special agent Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sometimes law enforcement wishes not everyone got along. USA Today reports that rival prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia “are brokering unusual criminal alliances outside prison to assist Mexican drug cartel operations in the U.S. and Mexico.” Inside the prisons, the paper reported, the groups…
