By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In 2009, the number of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty reached a 50-year low. That downward trend is gone. The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) in Washington is reporting a 43 percent increase of officers killed in the line of duty during the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A high-ranking U.S. Marshal Service official is in trouble. The Washington Examiner reports that Sylvester E. Jones, assistant director of the Marshal service’s Witness Security Division, has been placed on leave following charges that he beat his wife in suburban Washington. The paper reports that Jones was arrested May 3 on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration pulled the trigger Thursday and nominated five U.S. Marshals. The nominees include: Loren Carl for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Kerry Forestal for the Southern District of Indiana; Gerald Holt for the Western District of Virginia; Clifton Massanelli for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Scott…
It’s a good thing that this standoff did not end in death. Besides the obvious, it would have made the tax evaders martyrs. By The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. – A federal sharpshooter had tax evader Ed Brown’s head in his crosshairs and was ready to pull the trigger during a failed attempt to arrest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Newsday is reporting that a Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months probation in federal court for possession of a counterfeit U.S. Marshal’s badge. The paper said that Richard Kudlik, 46, created a website in which he posed as a federeal marshal to lure woman. Kudlik could…
