By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two San Diego men were busted for impersonating FBI agents in a scheme to shake down a woman out of more than $200,000. NBC San Diego reports that the men posed as agents and told a woman that she was a victim of a fraud by her bank. They directed her…
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 Here’s another reminder how the real estate and banking world have suffered as a result of major acts of fraud. In San Diego, charges were unsealed on Tuesday against several real estate agents involved in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme targeting “vulnerable, low-income immigrants” , according to a statement from the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Boles has been named head of the FBI’s Norfolk, Va., office, the agency announced Friday. Boles, who last served as special assistant to the National Security Branch (NSB) executive assistant director and as section chief of the NSB Executive Staff Section, joined the bureau in 1995. He was first assigned…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Five members of the cartel-like Los Palillos gang, a blight on life in San Diego, remain at large while the FBI continues searching for them, reports 10 News. “It’s as if a group of serial killers moved from Tijuana into San Diego and started murdering citizens here,” deputy district attorney Mark…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dumfounded by the success of the “Geezer Bandit” — a prolific bank robber who appears to be in his 70s — the FBI in Southern California is now aggressively pursuing the theory that he is actually a younger man who has donned a mask while sticking up 16 banks in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops. The oops began when the FBI in San Diego notified the Springfield, Or. cops that a man in that community had purchased a suicide kit from a 91-year-old retired science teacher in California. The FBI had raided the California woman’s home four months ago and then started — although belatedly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s no shortage of lawlessness along the Mexican border. Two Americans were murdered and a Border Patrol agent was busted for drugs in two separate incidents. On Monday, two Americans who work for the San Diego-based West Coast Beverage Maintenance were shot and killed inside their company pickup truck as they…
