By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — And now for the latest from the once friendly skies. Authorities say a Virginia man who forced an Atlanta to San Francisco AirTran flight to divert to Colorado on Jan. 8 got angry after flight attendants cut him off from having more alcohol, according to Denver tv station KDVR….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael B. Ward has been plucked from the FBI mothership to head the agency’s Newark Division, starting in March. Ward, currently the assistant director of Counterrorism Division’s Operations Branch II at headquarters, started his FBI career in 1988 and spent the first nine years in the Dallas office dealing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The news website TPMmuckraker is challenging an assertion by conservative columnist Frank Gaffney in a recent op-ed piece that D.C. FBI agent John Guandolo lost his job because of fierce opposition to radical Islamic ideology, not because he was sleeping with a key witness in the ex-Congressman William Jefferson…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A veteran FBI agent in New Orleans has been tapped as the new police chief for the city of Mandeville, a suburb of New Orleans, the New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting. Percy “Rick” Richard III, who has served a special agent in New Orleans since 1991, supervises 15 agents and five…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested two men in New York on Friday in connection with the ongoing probe into the bomb plot targeting the Big Apple that allegedly involved the Colorado airport driver, the Associated Press reported. Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in New York, told the Associated press that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston FBI will be getting a little help in a suburban police corruption probe, thanks to a former cop from that department who has agreed to cooperate. Ex-Detective Arlindo Romeiro of the Stoughton Police Department pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston to lying to FBI agents about…
D.C. police are partially crediting this sting with the record low homicide rate. The D.C. police worked with the FBI, which wired the store and ATF, which traced the guns. By Clarence Williams Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The three young men dressed in black walked into the Northeast auto body shop, talking fast,…
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