Border Patrol Veteran of 29 Years Takes Over Office in Maine
Border Patrol in Maine has a new chief.
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State AG: Border Patrol Agents Used Justified Deadly Force in Maine Home Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two border patrol agents who opened fire inside a Maine home while responding to a domestic disturbance in June were justified in using deadly force, the state Attorney General’s office said Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reports. Investigators said the agents, James Tierney and Chris Demanski, returned fire after the home’s 75-year-old…
FBI Agent Commits Suicide in Maine
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI wasn’t saying much last week about the suicide of an FBI agent, who shot himself in the Portland, Maine area over the weekend of April 24, according to sources. The agent was in his early 50s, one source said. FBI agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI…
Maine Atty. Gen. Rules ATF Agents Justified in Killing Biker
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Four ATF agents who shot and killed a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang last summer during a gun fight in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, won’t be charged criminally, the the Maine Attorney General has ruled. In a report issued Tuesday, the Attorney General’s Office concluded the killing of gang member…
FBI Stats Show Banks Robbers Prefer Fridays
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Most Americans look forward to Friday, the gateway to the weekend. Bank robbers, it appears, are no different. The FBI’s bank crime statistics released Wednesday for the first quarter of 2010 — January through March — shows 241 bank crimes occurred on Friday, more than any other day of…
Senate Confirms Maine Superior Court Justice Delahanty as U.S. Attorney
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Senate Tuesday confirmed Maine Superior Court Justice Thomas E. Delahanty II as the U.S. Attorney for Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. Delahanty, 65, of Falmouth, Maine, was nominated in March. He will replace Paula Silsby. He had previously served as U.S. Attorney in the early 1980s. “I’m hoping…
ATF Says Fatal Shooting of Biker By Agents Under Review
By Allan Lengel and Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com The ATF office in Boston said Tuesday’s incident in Maine in which ATF agents shot and killed a biker who was named in a 27-person federal indictment is under review. “The shooting’s under review,” James McNally, a spokesman for the ATF office in Boston told the Boston Globe,…
ATF Agents Shoot and Kill Motorcycle Gang Member in Shoot Out in Maine
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF agents rounding up more than two dozen members of the American Outlaw Association motorcycle gang in a seven-state sweep, killed one of the members Tuesday in a shoot out just south of Portland, Me., authorities said. Michael Campbell, a spokesman for ATF in Washington, said agents went to…