Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eye-witness accounts can be wildly different, causing a headache for investigators. Take a St. Louis police-involved shooting that killed a young black man in April. Police interviewed about 12 witnesses, half of whom said they saw the shooting, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports. Some said the young man, Cary Ball, had…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Forget drones. The U.S. Border Patrol is testing the abilities of helium-filled balloons that were originally used by the Department of Defense for surveillance, the Associated Press reports. Don’t be confused by the seemingly simple technology of balloons. Aerostats, as they’re called, can identify the make, model and color of a car…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just as the holidays kick into high gear, Target is reporting a security breach involving stolen credit card and debit card information for millions of customers, the New York Times reports. The Secret Service is investigating a breach that apparently occurred on the day after Thanksgiving and may still be happening. Authorities…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI had a crisis on its hands. Several bomb threats were sent via email to Harvard University, causing the school to close buildings during final exams. The student accused of sending in the threat, sophomore Eldo Kim, took steps to hide his identity using two anonymity tools – the routing service Tor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes it really does pay to listen to the FBI. Jerry Capeci of the website Gang Land News, reports that mobster Anthony DiLapi was murdered by a Luchese family hit squad after ignoring warnings by an FBI agent that he was targeted for death. Capeci writes: Anthony DiLapi, a short, stocky mobster…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Will Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife get indicted? We may soon find out. Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig and Sari Horwitz of the Washington Post report that the Justice Department last week had notified him and his wife that they would be charged in connection with a gift scandal. But…
