By Steve Neavling An FBI agent was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attacking and handcuffing a New York City traffic agent who wrote him a ticket in Queens. Kenneth Diu, 46, was on a stakeout when he received the ticket on April 19, police sources told The New York Daily News. Diu was issued a desk…
The Secret Service arrested a Queens man accused of threatening to kidnap and kill then-President Trump if he refused to leave the White House following his failed 2020 election.
In a rare move, the FBI is trying to fire an agent after he intentionally shot a suspect.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors said FBI agents did not violate the law by tracking a New York assemblyman using cell phone tower data, The Times-Union reports. Assemblyman William Scarborough had no reasonable expectation of privacy because he was using a cell tower, which prosecutors argued is essentially a business record. The Queens Democrat…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who used to serve as an FBI agent, has been banned from the bureau’s New York field offices, DNAinfo New York reports. Just in case Grimm shows up, security posted Grimm’s photo at the offices in Lower Manhattan and Queens. “He is not welcome,” a former top FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Queens man said the FBI put him on the no-fly list in retaliation for not acting as an informant, the New York Daily News reports. Muhammad Tanvir is accusing FBI agents of barring him from air travel because he refused to act as an informant to get intelligence on Muslim neighbors….
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 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…
