By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA special agent was seriously injured after trying to stop a drug dealing suspect in a car as it entered a gas station in Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood, the Chicago Tribune reports. The fleeing car struck the agent, causing head injuries and a broken leg. The agent, whose identity has not…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two FBI agents were shot while helping police execute a search warrant near Ferguson early Wednesday, Reuters reports. The FBI said the shooting was unrelated to the unrest in Ferguson, where protesters have been gathering for months after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teen. “The incident is not…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Neither drugs nor alcohol appeared to play a role in the car accident that seriously injured former FBI Director Louis Freeh, the Burlington Free Press reports. Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., remains in serious condition at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. where he’s being protected by armed guards. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two ATF agents were wounded in Oklahoma after trying to arrest a man wanted in a shooting, the Associated Press reports. The agents, whose names were not revealed, were treated and released and sustained no serious injuries. Seventeen-year-old Henry Jackson was shot and killed by local police after he opened fire on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is having trouble interrogating the surviving Boston bombings suspect because of his condition at the hospital, The Guardian reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has a bullet wound in his throat and is unable to speak, The Guardian wrote. “The information that we have is that there was a shot to the…
