Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com You never know what you’ll find when breaking into a car. For one thief, it was two high-powered rifles. The Boston Globe reports that a Colt M16-A1 Rifle and an HS Precision Pro-Series 2000 Sniper Rifle were stolen from an FBI SWAT vehicle parked in a residential area, where the agent wasn’t…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is warning local law enforcement about a hoax called “swatting.” Using technology to hack a phone, prank callers are pretending to be shooters or victims of a shooting to draw SWAT teams to a house of unsuspecting people. “The FBI looks at these crimes as a public safety issue,” said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura A. Bucheit, who served as a special assistant to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, has been named special agent in charge of the agency’s Las Vegas Division, the Las-Vegas Review-Journal reports. Bucheit’s career with the FBI began in 1996 at the Baltimore Division, where she investigated terrorism and other serious…
By Annie Gowen, Sari Horwitz and and David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post WATERTOWN, Mass. — Police arrested the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing here Friday night after a day-long manhunt led them to the wounded man hiding in a back yard. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found after a resident in Watertown saw blood…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was an error that cost FBI agent Barry Bush his life on April 5, 2007. A new detailed report of the friendly-fire shooting shows numerous mistakes under very confusing circumstances, the Leigh Valley Express-Times reports. Bush, a veteran FBI agent, was supposed to perform surveillance on suspected bank robbers until…
By Coleen Rowley Ex-FBI Agent For Huffington Post The war on dissent, rather than terrorism, continued full steam with FBI SWAT teams breaking down doors at 7 am Friday (Sept 24) morning and raiding the homes of several anti-war leaders and activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and possibly a couple other Midwest cities. Members of the…
