The FBI arrested a truck driver accused of threatening to “shoot up” a Memphis, Tenn., church after saying he was haunted by “spiritual snakes and spiders in my bed at night.”
A 19-year-old woman who had an impairment from radiation and the removal of a bran tumor was assaulted by security workers at a Memphis International checkpoint, according to a lawsuit.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joseph P. McMahon, who joined the FBI in 1967 and worked his way up as a section chief specializing in foreign counterintelligence, died at his Alexandria home earlier this month. The Washington Post reports that McMahon died after a battle with cancer. He was 72. McMahon started a supervisor of the political…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Stephen E. Richardson, an inspector with the Office of Inspections, is leaving the mothership at headquarters and heading south to take charge of the Mobile, Ala. FBI office. Richardson began his career with the FBI in 1996 and was first assigned to the New Orleans Division, Lafayette Resident Agency, and later…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Aaron T. Ford, an inspector at FBI headquarters, who has a law degree from Rutgers, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Memphis Division. As inspector, he oversaw field office and headquaters inspections, shooting incident review teams, audits, and special inquiries. Ford began his career with the FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Amy S. Hess is leaving FBI headquarters to take the post as special agent in charge of the Memphis office, the FBI announced Wednesday. Hess most recently served as section chief in the International Operations Division. She joined the FBI in 1991 and was first assigned to the Kansas…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A key FBI official, Arthur M. Cummings II, executive assistant director for the FBI’s National Security Branch at headquarters– which includes weapons of mass destruction, counterintelligence and counterterrorism — is retiring soon to work for a financial institution in Connecticut. Cummings, who has been an agent for 22-years, had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Simply put: This is something you don’t want to hear: The Associated Press reports that the guns used in the recent Pentagon shooting on March 4 and the Las Vegas U.S. District Courthouse on Jan. 4 came from the Memphis police and court system. The AP reported that both…
