Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man convinced that the FBI had implanted a tracking device into his head threatened to detonate an explosive burrito at the bureau’s Albuquerque field office, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Brian DeMarco, 50, called up the FBI from his Super 8 motel room to warn that he planned to blow up a…
By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES Wall Street Journal For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest. Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it’s not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Egyptian-American college student in California filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday, saying the agency violated his civil rights when it secretly placed a GPS tracking device on his car, the Associated Press reported. Yasir Afifi, a student at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif., who insists the…
