Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents opened fire on a stolen car when the driver tried to run over agents in a desperate attempt to flee Tuesday, News 4 WOAI reports. The incident happened after agents pulled over the car after discovering it was stolen. But when agents got out to talk to the driver,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than a dozen foreign nationals in Milwaukee have been arrested for alleged ties to the Mexican Posse gang, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The suspects – 13 from Mexico, one from the Dominican Republic – are in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is cracking down on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York man has pleaded guilty this week to stealing pieces of our nation’s history. According to the FBI, Barry H. Landau, 63, of New York, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy and theft of historical documents from museums across New England, including original documents of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two TSA officers based out of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York are trading their jobs for jail sentences, reports the Mail Online. Coumar Pesad, 44, and Davon Webb, 31, admitted to stealing $40,000 in cash from a single checked bag, the paper reports. Persad saw money in the bag…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A corrupt former aide to two Buffalo mayors may help the feds find more corruption. Timothy E. Wanamaker, also a former economic development chief, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of stealing government funds, reports Buffalo News, and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. Wanamaker admitted to charging about $30,000…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Timothy Kern responded to a Craigslist ad in Ohio offering $300 a week to tend more than 680 acres of farm land. He was trying to provide for his three sons. His body was found on Friday, buried near a shopping mall in Akron, Ohio, the Associated Press reported. He was…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com David E. Gregory, 57, walked into the Chicago Community Bank at 52 East Lake Street in Chicago, Ill. at around 9:30am on Sept. 30. He handed the teller a note which said he had a gun and a bomb, and demanded money from the teller’s drawer. Gregory walked out of the…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — A resident of Moscow, “BadB” lived the glamorous life, hopping jets to Europe, freely spending money — even as U.S. authorities marked him as one of the world’s “most prolific sellers” of stolen credit card data. French authorities arrested Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, at the airport in…
