Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are not sure how six U.S. border agents became ill after inspecting a vehicle at a crossing in northern New York, The Associated Press reports. The officer became ill Saturday morning while examining a 2002 BMW at the Champlain crossing. The officers, who were decontaminated on site, have been released from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The New York FBI has recovered an agent’s car that was stolen in Queens. They were relieved to know no one removed from the trunk a Colt M-4 rifle, four loaded 20-round magazines and a bulletproof vest, ABC 7 reports. The 2011 Toyota Camry was stolen Tuesday, prompting fears that the high-powered…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service say it has cracked one of the largest ever international money-laundering schemes, Fox News reports. Authorities in Costa Rica, Spain and New York have arrested five people accused in a $6 billion money laundering scheme involving an online company based in Costa Rica The company, named Liberty Reserve,…
Opinion New York Daily News The FBI’s dereliction in failing to instantly notify Police Commissioner Ray Kelly that the Boston Marathon bombers planned to attack New York was irresponsible, unforgivable, terrifying and grounds for overhauling its anti-terror protocols. The bureau allowed well more than 48 hours to pass before sending word that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Agent Gerard Conrad was just taking a stroll in Forest Park in Queens when he stumbled upon a meeting between top Gambino mobster Bartolomeo (Bobby) Vernace and others involved in the crime family, the New York Daily News reports. Conrad happened to be supervising 15 agents who were investigating the crime…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI shuttered its Kingston office in New York and moved staff and resources to the Albany offices, the Mid-Hudson News reports. The move will make operations run more smoothly, said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein. “The Albany division did not have any resources diverted away as part of the closing of this…
BY LARRY MCSHANE AND ROBERT GEARTY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK –Thirty mobbed-up suspects – including a ringleader known as “Papa Smurf” – were arrested Wednesday in a probe of the garbage-hauling industry, authorities said. The purported wise guys – members of the Gambino, Lucchese and Genovese organized crime families – were busted in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The threat of terrorism always looms, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI, which can take some credit for averting some potential terrorist attacks, has put together a list of of some of the top terrorist cases of 2012. The following was posted on the FBI website. Alabama men arrested on…
