Weekend Series on Crime History: The RFK Assassination
An ICE detainee on Tuesday night escaped from custody at JFK airport and fled in a taxi, officials said.
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Should TSA Fire Staffers After 11 Passengers Weren’t Screened at JFK Airport?
Eleven passengers managed to get past a checking point at JFK Airport without being screened last week, prompting outrage from law enforcement.
DEA Agent’s Gun Fires As Suspect Tries to Wrestle a Gun from Him
It was a tense moment for a DEA agent who was trying to arrest a drug suspect.
FBI May Have Cracked Case of Pre-Dawn Robbery Immortalized by ‘Goodfellas’
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 1978 robbery depicted in the movie “Goodfellas” was inspired by real life events at John F. Kennedy International Airport. CNN reports a major break in that case, in which suspected organized crime associates were murdered and more than $6 million in cash and jewelry stolen. On Wednesday, authorities arrested suspected Bonanno…
TSA Agents Sent to Jail for Swiping Cash from Passenger’s Bag
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two TSA officers based out of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York are trading their jobs for jail sentences, reports the Mail Online. Coumar Pesad, 44, and Davon Webb, 31, admitted to stealing $40,000 in cash from a single checked bag, the paper reports. Persad saw money in the bag…
Guyanese National Gets 15 Years in Plot to Blow Up JFK Airport
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Guyanese national was sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court to 15 years in prison for his role in an international plot to blow up fuel lines and fuel tanks under JFK Airport in Queens, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Authorities charged that that Abdel Nur provided material support to the…
Probe Into NJ Jihadists Started With Tip on FBI Website
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI had been tracking two suspected New Jersey jihadists since 2006 after getting a tip on its website, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. “Every time they access the internet, all they look for is all those terrorist videos about the Islam holly war and where they kill U.S. soldiers and other…
FBI Surveillance of NY Bomb Suspect Broke Down
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI surveillance of the Times Square car bomber broke down, allowing the suspect to spend more than three hours at JFK airport unwatched Monday while he waited to board a plane to Dubai, with the ultimate destination being Pakistan, Newsweek is reporting. Newsweek reported that Faisal Shahzad arrived…