Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A threatening letter containing black powder prompted the evacuation of the DEA’s office in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood Thursday, the New York Daily News reports. The DEA evacuated a floor of its offices and quarantined three employees after the letter was opened at 9:15 a.m. Police, firefighters, medics and the FBI responded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service has its rules. As a result, the lone black firefighter at the Midtown firehouse — Engine 54, Ladder Company 4 — visited by President Obama on Thursday wasn’t allowed to be there, the New York Times reported. ”Secret Service only wanted the people that were working that tour…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This was not the smartest of schemes. And because of that, U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte on Monday sentenced former Prince George’s County Police officer Eddie Lee Smith, Jr., 42, of Maryland to two years and six months in prison. He was also ordered to pay $10,170.94 in restitution for…
