By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The alarming increase in computer attacks has prompted the FBI to create a cyber crimes task force in Louisville, WDRB.com reports. To combat the sophistication, the FBI is recruiting computer-savvy people. “There’s a changing in the F.B.I. for sure,” said Michael Russo Jr., a Supervisory Special Agent with the F.B.I. Russo…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Perrye K. Turner, who most recently served as special agent in charge of the Louisville office, has been named as head of the FBI’s Houston division, Fox 26 reports. Turner started with the FBI in 1991 and was first assigned to the Birmingham Division, Huntsville Resident Agency, and in 1995, the New…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Howard S. Marshall, who began working with the FBI in 1997, has been named special agent in charge of the Louisville Division. The Associated Press reports that Marshall will succeed Perrye K. Turner, who is becoming the new leader of the agency’s Houston office. Marshall served as inspector in the Inspector Division…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What ever makes people think they can do crazy things to federal agents and get away with it? Maybe we should ask Ted Schlenker of Louisville, a former Kentucky gun shop owner. Authorities charged him with mailing a 9 mm pistol and a threatening letter to an ATF agent who had…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com While on duty and driving in an official bureau car, an ATF agent in Louisville was sent to the hospital Thursday afternoon after a Cadillac hit a telephone pole, spun and struck the agent’s car. The injuries are not expected to be life-threatening, a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police told…
The University never likes it when your life off the court is far more interesting than your team’s life on the court. Rick Pitino has got a pretty interesting tale to tell. By Andrew Wolfson Louisville Courier-Journal LOUISVILLE — University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino told police that he had consensual sex with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert Mueller III sprinkled a little wit and humor in a speech he delivered Monday during the dedication of the new $40 million, three-story FBI building in Louisville just south of I-64. “Having had a chance to tour the new space, I am doubtful that any of you will…
