By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com People pointing hand-held lasers at aircraft — an act that can temporarily blind or disorient a pilot — nearly doubled in 2010 compared to the year before, the FBI says. The FBI reported that in 2009 there were 1,489 laser incidents recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration compared to 2,836 in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A deputy marshal who was critically injured Tuesday morning while trying to arrest a man in St. Louis, died from his wounds Tuesday night around 7 p.m., the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The paper identified the slain deputy U.S. Marshal as John Perry, 48, who had been with the agency…
UPDATE: Tuesday, 5:36 p.m. — Authorities have identified the dead suspect as Carlos Boles, 36, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The fugitive search team was trying to arrest him on a warrant for allegedly assaulting a city police officer and drug possession stemming from an October incident. Boles opened fire Tuesday morning and was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents have been conducting raids in U.S. cities and targeting Mexican cartel members in response to last week’s murder of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico, the Associated Press reported. Another ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. was shot and wounded. “We are taking a stand and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Native Oklahoman Dennis L. Baker, special assistant to the FBI deputy director, has been picked to head the St. Louis office. Baker started his FBI career as a special agent in June 1988 and was first stationed in Charlotte where he worked violent crime and drugs. In 2002, he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Veteran agent Roland J. Corvington, head of the St. Louis FBI, is leaving to the become chief of security at Saint Louis University, according to the St. Louis American. “I am terribly sad to see him go,” U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan for Eastern Missouri – executive prosecutor to Corvington’s top cop…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Roland J. Corvington, who headed up the St. Louis FBI office from 2005 to 2007, is returning to take charge of that office once again, the FBI annnounced Tuesday. Corvington, assistant director of the FBI’s Security Division at headquarters,replaces John Gillies, who was recently named special agent in charge…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John V. Gillies, who headed the FBI’s St. Louis office, has been named special agent in charge of the Miami division, the FBI announced Friday. He replaces Jonathan I. Solomon, who retired. Gillies, a Chicago native, started his FBI career in 1983 as a financial analyst. Two years later,…
