Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty FBI agent’s decision to take a gun into an elementary school in Nebraska has prompted debate about addressing the state’s gun law, Omaha World-Herald reports. A parent at a Papillion elementary school spotted the gun and asked the school board to clarify the law on plainclothes officers carrying weapons. Nebraska…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sometimes the FBI and journalists don’t see eye to eye. So what’s a better way to nurture that relationship than to host a day at a firing range with reporters in Alabama, AL.com reports? Journalists and agents gathered Tuesday for FBI Range Day, which gives the media a firsthand look at guns,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hollis Nunnery didn’t let the fact that he was a convicted felon get in the way of posting pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook, WoodTV.com reports. Nunnery also happened to be the focus of an FBI investigation into bank robberies. After spotting Nunnery holding a large handgun with a laster site,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has received more than 200 complaints from pro-drug advocates after agents raided Silk Road, an online marketplace for drugs, guns and other illicit goods, the Guardian reports. While attempting to access $80 million worth of Bitcoins accumulated by Silk Road founder, the FBI seized $3.2 million worth of Bitcoins that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. and Puerto Rico are safer today because of an anti-crime initiative aimed at putting more federal agents in Puerto Rico, Reuters reports. Dubbed “Operation Caribbean Resilience,” the effort started in July 2012 but increased markedly over the last three months, according to Reuters. In the past year, the operation has…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although the ATF is tasked with tracing guns used in crimes, the agency was virtually left out of the Navy Yard shooting investigation, CBS News reports. That task was given to the FBI, which located the store where the gun was purchased within a few hours of the shooting. It was unusual…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A young girl in pink pajamas is pictured pointing a Kalashnikov-style assault rifle. Children also are posed flashing gang signs. The chilling images were found when the FBI and LSAP officers conducted raids late last week targeting the Rollin’ 30s Harlem Crips gang, the New York Daily News reports. More than 30…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent made an unsettling discovery outside of his North Carolina residence earlier this month: Someone broke into his car overnight and stole an M-16, shotgun, night vision equipment and body armor. Now the Charlotte FBI office is offering up to a $5,000 reward leading to the recovery of the stolen…
