Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Maryland Senate approved decriminalizing of possession of small amounts of marijuana over the objections of federal law enforcement Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Maryland joins other states and cities across the country decriminalizing pot. Colorado and Washington, for instance, have legalized marijuana. Unlike like full legalization in those states, Maryland makes…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government is hoping to trade the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. for a new home without any additional costs, the Washington Business Journal reports. Officials from the FBI and General Services Administration met with about 350 interested developers last week to outline the plan, the Journal wrote. The FBI is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Virginia and Maryland are stepping up competition to land the new headquarters of the FBI, the Washington Examiner reports. Drawn by the promise of 12,000 new jobs and an infusion of new tax revenue, the states and cities are lobbying hard to replace the current headquarters in Washington D.C., the four-decade-old J….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Washington Field Office will be among those honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at a ceremony in D.C. on Sept. 24. The ADL, a Jewish organization that works closely with law enforcement on hate crimes and terrorism issues, is presenting the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-U.S. Secret Service agent Daniel Bongino was triumphant Tuesday, winning the Republican Maryland primary for U.S. Senate, the Associated Press reported. He will now square off in November against incumbent Democrat Benjamin Cardin in what’s expected to be an uphill battle. Bongino has been campaigning on the need to reduce tax…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Baltimore County man was sentenced to eight years on Tuesday for threatening to kill an ATF task force officer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said. After prison, Allen Shepperd, 38, will be on supervised release for three years. According to Shepperd’s plea agreement, the Baltimore County Police Department and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jason James Savedoff had an obsession with historical documents and folks like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But it all seemed to center around money, not history. The 24-year-old New Yorker pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Baltimore to stealing historical documents from museums in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some thoughts are better kept to yourself. That’s what Craig Allen Shepperd, 37, of Whitehall, Md., hopefully learned. Shepperd pleaded guilty to threatening to murder an ATF task force member pleaded guilty last Friday in Baltimore federal court. “ATF agents, along other federal, state, and local law enforcement officers put their…
