By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Meet Yaser Abdel Said, the latest addition to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. The 57-year-old is a suspect in the brutal New Year’s Day murders of his two teenage daughters, CBS News reports. The girls, ages 17 and 18, died after being shot multiple times in the back of a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A fisherman’s catch in a drought-dry dam at Castaic Lake in California was quite the surprise. Instead of pulling out a fish, the Castaic man reeled in a bag containing a gun and badge issued to an ATF agent, CBSLA.com reports. The water line has receded 151 feet, the Los Angeles…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It has become almost too common: Travelers are caught with guns in the carry-on bags. Even after Sept. 11, when much more innocuous objects were banned from flights, people bring guns to airports, often because they forgot they had the weapon on the them. WCIV reports that a South Carolina man…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a tense encounter between the U.S. Border Patrol and an armed militia man, the Valley Morning Star reports. An agent is accused of firing several shorts at what turned out to be a militia member on private property. The incident happened while Border Patrol agents were chasing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s one of the greatest fears of law enforcement: A suspect wrestles away your guy, points it at you and squeezes the triggers. It happened Wednesday to a Border Patrol agent who was attacked by an immigrant near Encino, Texas, the Monitor reports. Officials said the immigrant wrestled away the agent’s pistol…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The better question might be – what wasn’t confiscated from U.S. airports in 2013? The TSA discovered guns, grenades, throwing stars and human skull fragments on travelers at checkpoints, WSBT.com reports, citing a TSA blogger. Security found a stun gun in a cane and pepper spray disguised as lipstick. “Our officers regularly find…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Washington Times has sued Homeland Security after federal agents seized a reporter’s notes, the Associated Press reports. The suit accuses federal agents of illegally seizing the materials during a search warrant over a gun and potato launcher allegedly possessed by the reporter’s husband. Now the newspaper wants the notes back and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents arrested a Michigan man Tuesday after he was found with a gun, armor, 34 rounds of ammunition and a fake CIA identification, the Associated Press reports. Cassidy Delavergne was charged with possessing the phony ID. The man told an agent that he was showing the fake ID to calm concerns…
