Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gun used by a felon to shoot and kill a state trooper in the state of Washington in February was traced to a gun show in 2009, the Associated Press reports. The news comes from the ATF, which tracked the history of the .40-caliber Smith & Wesson. The proper documentation was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Sikh Temple gunman who killed six people in a rampage outside Milwaukee died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, the Associated Press reports. Wade Michael Page was wounded by police when he turned the gun on himself, the FBI said Wednesday. Investigators still don’t know what motivated Wade Michael Page…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agent Stephen Ivens who went missing two months ago from his Burbank, Calif., home and was found dead Monday in a wooded area, committed suicide, authorities have ruled, according to the Associated Press reports. Ivens went missing in May, prompting a furious search. Investigators said Ivens was despondent and had feared…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com On the surface, it looks pretty suspicious. It’s “definitely bizarre and defies logic at first glance,” Jonesboro, Ark. Police Chief Michale Yates said, reports Huffington Post. Chavis Carter, 21, was shot in the head while handcuffed in the rear of a police car in Arkansas. Police said Carter committed suicide with a…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details continue to roll in about the kidnapping-murder-suicide of Adam Mayes, who had just been placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Mayes in April had abducted a mother and her three daughters. The mother, Jo Ann Bain and the eldest daughter were found dead. The FBI says that the two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Before long everyone knew Bernie Madoff’s son Mark killed himself last year by hangning himself by a dog leash. But what few know is that Madoff himself and his wife tried committing suicide as well, according to an interview this Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes, the Associated Press reported. “I don’t…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI wasn’t saying much last week about the suicide of an FBI agent, who shot himself in the Portland, Maine area over the weekend of April 24, according to sources. The agent was in his early 50s, one source said. FBI agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Prescription drugs stored in medicine cabinets and in kitchens and bedrooms may not be as innocent as they appear. With that in mind, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, along with government, community, public health and law enforcement partners, plan next month to launch a “Take-Back” initiative “that seeks to…
