Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security agent is recovering after he and five local law enforcement officials were wounded during a shootout Friday in suburban Sacramento, the Associated Press reports. The agent was hospitalized in serious condition this weekend after he was shot in the leg. Four of the officers were wounded by shrapnel and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Monica M. Miller, who has abundant experience investigating violent crime and public corruption, has been tapped as the leader of the FBI’s Sacramento field office, the Sacramento Bee reports. Miller will replace Herb M. Brown, who departed last year to take a job with the Central California Intelligence Center. Miller was the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Sacramento-based shoplifting crew accused of making more than $3 million selling more than 17,000 items from retailers on eBay, News 10 ABC reports. Seven suspects were identified in criminal complaints that were unsealed Wednesday.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to build a new FBI regional office in metropolitan Sacramento, the Sacramento Business Journal reports. Citing officials from Roseville, where the office is to be located, the FBI settled on a 12-acre site. The office is expected to be opened in 2015. City officials said the FBI is beginning…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Keith Slotter, who has headed the FBI’s San Diego office since 2007, and who once headed the Sacramento office, is retiring at the end of March to join the private sector. Slotter, who was an accountant before joining the FBI, has been with the bureau for the past 25 years. He…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The ATF is investigation Deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department surrounding illegal weapon sales at the Rio Consumes Correction Center, in Elk Grover, Calif., reports local ABC affiliate News10. Several deputies are being investigated, but ATF Resident Agent in Charge Graham Barlow, who is leading the investigation, said no arrests…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Obama administration’s latest push against the medical marijuana industry is aimed at the media. U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said she plans to start going after newspapers, radio stations and other outlets that advertise marijuana dispensaries, reports California Watch. “I’m not just seeing print advertising,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy told California…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A dying mother’s request helped the FBI nab her her son, who had been on the lam for 36 years. He had escaped from prison while serving life for a deadly San Francisco robbery. The Sacramento FBI Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force on Friday arrested William Walter Asher III, 66,…
