Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Chicago led the nation in the sheer number of murders last year with 500, eclipsing even New York, which has a much larger population. The FBI statistics released this week show that New York City had 419 murders, followed by Detroit with 386 and Philadelphia with 331 last year. But on a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura M. Laughlin, the top FBI agent in Washington state, says she continues to be discriminated against nearly two years after filing a gender discrimination suit against the bureau, McClatchy reports. Special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Seattle field office, Laughlin contends in an updated legal filing that her gender has cost her…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents seized unspecified files and other records from the Philadelphia Sheriff”s Office on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into the former administration, the USA Today reports. That administration was led by John Green, who resigned in January 2011 following allegations of corruption and mismanagement. A spokesman for Sheriff Jewell…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A shootout between two suspects and the FBI and police ended with one suspect dead and another injured, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The newspaper reported that both men were suspects in murders and robberies across the city and were determined to fight if authorities tried to apprehend them. That’s exactly what happened…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Homeland Security officer told police an erratic driver pointed a gun at him in Philadelphia, the Chestnut Hill Patch reports. The unidentified officer said he approached an erratically driven car to see if the driver was OK when the driver pulled out a semi-automatic handgun. The officer drove off and…
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…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A division of the Department of Homeland Security spied and kept records on the Occupy Wall Street protests, even when they were peaceful the Huffington Post reports. More than 250 records obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund show the federal government was keeping close tabs on protesters. “Taken together, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Edward J. Hanko has been named the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Division. Hanko most recently served as special agent in charge of the Cincinnati Division and was responsible for FBI investigations in central and southern Ohio. Hanko joined the FBI in 1986 and was first assigned to the…
