FBI Begins to Track Worst Animal Abuse Cases This Year to Improve Enforcement
Beginning this year, the FBI will begin tracking the animal cruelty cases to keep an eye on the worst abuse in the country.
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Local Police Help FBI Keep Tabs on Growing Number of Terrorism Suspects
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is struggling to keep track of what appears to be a growing network of ISIS supporters who blend in until the time comes to attack. CNN reports that then NYPD and other local law enforcement agencies are pitching in to search for and investigate ISIS supporters. The most recent…
Longtime Border Patrol Agent Known for His Skill at ‘the Game’ Dies
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com During the three decades that he spent with Border Patrol, Ab Taylor became somewhat of a legend. The plain-spoken Texan was known for his incredible man-tracking ability. On Sept. 9, Taylor died at the age 88, The Washington Post reports. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease. Taylor made a name for himself by developing…
Feds to Make Case for Tracking Cell Phone Locations without a Warrant
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities will make their case before federal judges that warrantless tracking of cell phone locations is legal, CNET reports. Federal prosecutors don’t want to ask a judge to approve a warrant before obtaining stored records that reveal the constant movements of mobile phone users over a two-month period, according to CNET….
Method to Track Firearms Stalled by Foes
By ERICA GOODE New York Times Identifying the firearm used in a crime is one of the biggest challenges for criminal investigators. But what if a shell casing picked up at a murder scene could immediately be tracked to the gun that fired it? A technique that uses laser technology and stamps a numeric code…
Supreme Court Rules Police Must Have Search Warrant Before Using GPS Device
By Robert Barnes Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must obtain a search warrant before using a GPS device to track criminal suspects. But the justices left for another day larger questions about how technology has altered a person’s expectation of privacy. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the government…
Artist Offers Whole Life’s Details to FBI, Public
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When Hasan M. Elahi landed in Detroit, Mich., and walked into the country on June 19, 2002, a customs official asked that Elahi follow him to an Immigration and Naturalization Services office at the airport. That incident initiated a period of “questioning went on for the next six months and ended…
FBI Had Problems Tracking Suspected Terrorist in Texas
In the wake of the arrests of some suspected terrorists, we’re now learning of the difficulties the FBI had tracking them. In New York, the counterterrorism task force apparently lost suspect Najibullah Zazi on the NY subway for a brief time. And now we see here the difficulties the FBI had tracking Hosam “Sam” Smadi….