By The Oregonian Editorial Board Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, who reportedly has not yet established a position on the matter, recently scheduled a 90-minute hearing to discuss “withdrawal from JTTF involvement.” The Dec. 18 discussion, perhaps fittingly, will occur in the midst of a holiday season devoted to ritual. Portland City Council seems to revisit the city’s…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Pimps appear to be getting more brazen. KSAT ABC 12 reports that pimps are luring children and young adults into sex work by working in groups and public events. “They travel the same way that maybe a band would travel: from city to city. They identify a market which would be…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of ramming his truck into a car carrying two FBI agents pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports. Yatnier Gonzalez, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a federal officer. He will be sentenced on March 12. The two agents are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA forked over $854,460 to an Amtrak secretary for confidential information the agency should have gotten for free, according to an internal investigation. The DEA paid the employee to be an informant despite the agency’s right to obtain the information at no cost as part of a joint drug enforcement task…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What started as a complaint from two students about how the University of North Carolina handled their sexual assaults has spread across the nation’s colleges and attracted the attention of President Obama. The USA Today reports that Annie E. Clark and Andrea Pino were so outraged that university officials blamed them for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The 1976 string of stabbings in California was horrific and never yielded much of a clue about the suspect. Now, the FBI is expected to announce today a possible link between the five homicides in San Mateo County and a murder in Reno during the same time period, KTVU reports. The bureau…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Detroit cop Patrick Hill — part of a federal task force– who was critically wounded in a shootout with a murder suspect in early April on the city’s west side, died Saturday, a source tells Deadline Detroit. Hill got into a shootout while trying to arrest a murder…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Daryl McCrary is no stranger to the world of violence. Having spent 21 years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) he’s worked in places like Los Angeles and Baltimore. He’s gone undercover, he’s bought guns on the street and investigated gangs and violent…
