Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF is under fire for botched storefront stings and other undercover operations across the country. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Inspector General Michael Horowitz opened an investigation into storefront stings in Milwaukee, Pensacola, St. Louis and Wichita, Kan. The agency is already under investigation for its handling of a controversial…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eye-witness accounts can be wildly different, causing a headache for investigators. Take a St. Louis police-involved shooting that killed a young black man in April. Police interviewed about 12 witnesses, half of whom said they saw the shooting, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports. Some said the young man, Cary Ball, had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jarrod M. Petrelli died young, and he died suddenly. The St. Louis FBI agent, who was 34, about to turn 35, died at a training conference in Florida, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper reported that he died last week of natural causes. He worked violent gangs during his four…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ATF agent shot and wounded two men in St. Louis on Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper reported that ATF agents and police were trying to arrest the two men when the shooting occurred. The men were hospitalized and one was in critical condition.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dean C. Bryant is taking over the St. Louis FBI office. Bryant, the chief of the Critical Incident Response Group’s Hazardous Devices Operations Section near Quantico, Va., was the senior FBI executive and chairman of the Joint Program Office responsible for coordinating with the interagency and the White House’s National Security…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service has an interest in rocker Ted Nugent, and not for his music. Yahoo News! is reporting that the Secret Service is looking into his violent rant at the NRA convention in St. Louis over the weekend. “I’ll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com “It is a sad day when law enforcement must pursue one of their own,” said US Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen R. Wigginton. Particularly when it involves stealing evidence, or more specifically, gaming consoles Xbox 360s. Wigginton was announcing on Thursday the guilty plea of Michael Baxton, the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com DEA agents, in conjunction with local police, arrested more than 50 people in the St. Louis area this week associated with a loose network of heroin trafficking. Officials hope to double the number of arrests in a fight against a growing problem in the region. A new form of highly-potent and…
