Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suburban Chicago terrorism suspect is expected to be charged today with trying to solicit the murder of an FBI agent, the Associated Press reports. Adel Daoud, who is accused of attempting to ignite what he thought was a car bomb outside of a downtown Chicago bar, is expected to plead not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA agent shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried running him over Saturday in a hotel parking lot in Houston, the Houston Chronicle reports. The shooting happened in the afternoon at the Houstonian Hotel. The Chronicle reports that a DEA task force showed up in the employee parking lot…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suspect in custody in the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya said he wants his attorney present during FBI interrogations, the Associated Press reports. Tunisian Ali Harzi is “strongly suspected” of being involved in the assault by armed men in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the AP reported. That…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There was more than gambling going on outside a Las Vegas casino on Thursday. KTNV-TV reported that an FBI agent shot and wounded a man wanted for murder around 2:30 p.m. outside of Arizona Charlie’s on Boulder Highway near Twain. The station reported that the local Criminal Apprehension Team had been…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com One of the first missing kids featured on a milk carton may see justice after all, though 33 years after his disappearance and long after he was assumed dead, it may be small comfort to his family. Pedro Hernandez was picked up by local cops in Camden, N.J., yesterday, and “made statements…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — The FBI has decided to step in after the Chicago police department cleared a cop who fatally shot an unarmed suspect seven times, NBC Chicago reported. Officer Gildardo Sierra fired at Flint Farmer in June and then fired some more after Farmer was already shot and lying on his…
