Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the White House and congressional Republicans fail to reach a budget plan, the FBI is prepared to reduce the number of agents working daily on cases, the Wall Street Journal reports. The plan under consideration would give agents one unpaid furlough day roughly on a bi-weekly basis, the Journal reported. That…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police in Georgia are prepared to start enforcing the state’s controversial “show-me-your-papers law” after a federal judge lifted an injunction on it, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The law allows police to check the immigration status of suspects. Anyone believed to be in the country illegally can be detained, the Journal-Constitution reported. Aimed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Drug smugglers are using a new technique to get their product across the U.S.-Mexico border, Huffington Post reports. Instead of risking the drive across, some smugglers are launching drugs over the border using a canon. The Huffington Post wrote that 33 cans of marijuana were spotted in a field Friday near a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents arrested two U.S. citizens accused of trying to leave the U.S. for North Africa “to wage violent jihad,” The Los Angeles Times reports. The 25-year-old residents, Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair and Randy Wilson, were charged Tuesday with conspiring to kill people outside the U.S. The L.A. Times reports the men…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents, with the help of Facebook, cracked one of the largest cybercrime cases in history, arresting 10 people accused of infecting computers with malicious software and then stealing their bank and other personal information worth $850 million, Reuters reports. Agents were assisted by Facebook’s security team after users of the social…
