Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Florida police officers are without a job after a confidential FBI report showed they were members of a local branch of the KKK, the Daily Mail reports. Fruitland Park Police dismissed Officer George Hunnewell, while Deputy Chief David Borst, 49, resigned. Borst also was the city’s fire chief. While Fruitland Police…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent in South Florida has been arrested on felony charges of manufacturing and selling drugs from her home, South Florida 6 reports. During a search of Latwana Daniels’ home, authorities said they found 111 grams of cocaine and 39 grams of marijuana. They also found scales and materials to make…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After spending two days hiding from authorities in the woods, a Florida man accused of building explosive devices to prepare for the end of the world surrendered Wednesday without incident, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Martin Winters waited outside the FBI field office in Tampa while his attorneys arranged for his surrender….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida man who is accused of building explosive devices as part of an end-of-the-world plan to kill federal agents may have stashed weapons in a hidden bunker, the FBI said. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Martin Howard Winters, 55, remains at large and is considered armed and dangerous. The FBI…
By Robert Cohen Federal Security Director As a Marine Corps colonel who commanded in all environments, I learned upon arriving at the Department of Homeland Security that the domestic front lines of the war on terrorism extend to the men and women of the Transportation Security Administration at your local airport. Having served for the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida state court panel on Wednesday ruled that former FBI Agent John J. Connolly Jr. was wrongfully convicted of participating in a plot to kill a Florida businessman in 1982 at the urging of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. The Los Angeles Times reports that the three-judge appellate panel tossed out…
By Kevin Cullen Boston Globe Pat Donahue was on the phone, incredulous not for the first time in this sordid, relentless mess. “So what you’re telling me,” she said, “is that John Connolly is getting off on a technicality, that he is probably going to get out of prison because of the statute of limitations?”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI agent who fatally shot a friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in his Florida apartment is the subject of an investigation over a $52,000 pension that he’s receiving as a retired police officer from Oakland, California. The Boston Globe reports that Aaron McFarlane has been receiving the…
