By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There was more than potential terrorist threats on the mind of the FBI involving Super Bowel LIII in Atlanta. The FBI said Tuesday that 169 people were arrested in an operation targeting the threat of sex trafficking leading up to the big event. A press release said an 11-day sting, starting Jan. 23,…
A Florida truck driver was arrested Sunday after a Walmart security guard discovered nearly 40 people packed into a sweltering tractor trailer parked outside of a Walmart in San Antonio, Texas.
The FBI’s largest crackdown on human trafficking yet led to the arrests of 239 pimps and prostitutes in the U.S. and dozens more outside the country.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — An officer on an FBI human trafficking task force was shot and wounded Friday night in the parking lot of the Detroit Marriott Southfield Hotel on Northwestern Highway in Southfield, a suburb just outside Detroit. A suspect targeted by the task officer was shot and killed, according to FBI…
A partnership between a sheriff’s office in Texas and Homeland Security has paid off so far.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey sought to assure agents and local law enforcement that the bureau plans to increase staff, training and resources in what will be a much less frugal 2014. The Times-Picayune reports that Comey, during his visit to the bureau’s New Orleans Field Office on Thursday, said the beefed-up budget…
By Les Zaitz The Oregonian PORTLAND, Ore. — A police operation meant to protect girls working for a pimp ended with an 18-year-old woman partially stripped, talking sex while massaging a naked police detective in a hotel room. The 2011 episode in a Vancouver, Wash., hotel was an odd conclusion to a long undercover operation…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Forget drones. The U.S. Border Patrol is testing the abilities of helium-filled balloons that were originally used by the Department of Defense for surveillance, the Associated Press reports. Don’t be confused by the seemingly simple technology of balloons. Aerostats, as they’re called, can identify the make, model and color of a car…
