By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to Sammy Ladymon: Find a new hobby. The 45-year-old Garland, Tex. man was arrested Thursday night after getting caught pointing a laser at an FBI aircraft that was hovering above, NBC DFW reported. The station reported that the FBI pilot flew over the area in response to complaints from pilots…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF has rubbed the Motley County, Tex., government the wrong way. The city attorney Tom Edwards says ATF could face Class C misdemeanor charges for violating the county’s burn ban after the agency detonated unwanted explosives, which triggered a fire that scorched 150 acres of land, according to the Plainview Daily…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep. Peter King is busting the chops of the Justice Department, claiming the department overruled fed prosecutors and FBI agents who wanted to file charges against unindicted co-conspirators in a prosecution of a Texas-based Muslim charity — the Holy Land Foundation — which had ties to Hamas in Gaza, the Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A government watchdog group — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — wants to figure out why ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was never prosecuted federally. CREW filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in D.C. against the Justice Department for failing to release records of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF said Tuesday it had arrested a suspected gun trafficker in Texas who allegedly bought one of the weapons that wound up in Mexico and was used to kill ICE agent Jaime Zapata on Feb. 15. Authorities said Mexican authorities recovered three guns used in the ICE agent’s slaying — one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –The easy to purchase farm supplies and chemicals continue to concern the FBI. The bureau has sent out a reminder to farm supply stores and other businesses in the U.S. to watch for unusual or suspicious purchases of fertilizer, pesticides and other substances that could be converted into explosives, ABC…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton on Tuesday vowed to go after the gunmen who fatally shot ICE agent Jaime J. Zapata and wounded agent Victor Avila in an ambush along a road in Mexico last week. “Together, the United States and Mexico will bring the long, hard arm of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The once powerful U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who had been under FBI investigation in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal, but was never charged, was sentenced in state court Monday in Austin, Tex., to three years in prison for a scheme in which he illegally helped funnel corporate contributions…
