Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was an unsettling confession. Miranda Barbour, 19, who is charged with murder stemming from a Craigslist ad in Pennsylvania, told authorities she killed at least 22 others as part of a satanic cult, Reuters reports. The FBI said Sunday it was working with local police. Barbour made the confessions during a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A well-known preacher who rescues kidnapped children in Africa is the subject of an FBI investigation after agents raided his home and ministry headquarters, CBN News reports. Sam Childers, who last year won the Mother Teresa Humanitarian Award for his work, found out last week that agents combed through his house and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s nominee of a key Justice Department position is coming under more attack. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and former Gov. Tom Ridge urged the U.S. Senate to reject Debo Adegbile because he helped overturn the death penalty for a convicted cop killer. Still, the Senate Judiciary…
By Andrea Peterson Washington Post WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday that the government must obtain a warrant to attach a GPS unit to a car. The case involved alleged pharmacy burglaries in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland: the authorities suspected a trio of brothers and slapped a magnetic GPS unit…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Twenty-year veteran Essam Rabadi became the new special agent in charge this month, Philly.com reports. Rabadi, a native of Yonkers, N.Y., became an ATF special agent in 1992, three years after he started off as a local police officer, Philly.com reported. Rabadi supervised the Philadelphia division’s drug-trafficking task force from 2000 to…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent Norbert Dembinski served under J. Edgar Hoover from 1950-53, and conducted interviews in Russian and Polish. At a recent ceremony honoring his service he recalled, “It seems I was always at the right place at the right time.” W. Al Bostdorff, President of the Society of Former Special Agents presented…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Thomas F. Minton III will head up the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, the governor’s office announced. Minton, 52, served most of his 22 years with the FBI investigating national security matters with a focus on terrorism, according to a press release. Minton was involved in key investigations such…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Last week, after the students had left a rural Pennsylvania school about 70 miles west of Scranton, DEA administrators and colleagues gathered there to remember a fallen agent, an alma mater of Hughesville High School, according to the Sun Gazette. Chad Michael, 30, assigned to the DEA Miami Division, was one…
