Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service wants a full investigation launched into claims that agents were forced to leave their posts protecting the White House complex in 2011 so they could monitor a friend of the agency’s former director. The Washington Post reports that Director Julia Pierson is calling for Homeland Security’s new inspector general…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. are sending nearly 30 experts to from the FBI and State and Defense departments to help the Nigerian government track down nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls, the Washington Post reports. Among those helping are four FBI officials specialize in recovering kidnap victims, negotiations and preventing future cases. About 276 girls are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are dealing with a sick new scheme in Texas called “virtual kidnapping.” Victims get a call, usually in the middle of the night, from someone who says they’ve kidnapped a loved one and wants ransom money wired immediately, KSAT.com reports. The callers usually doesn’t have any contact with the person they…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An alarming number of immigrants who are sex offenders are captured in South Texas. Since October 2013, Border Patrol has apprehended nearly 180 immigrants who have prior convictions for sex offenses, KZTV Action 10 reports. A majority of the offenders sexually assaulted children in the U.S. Just this weekend, Border Patrol arrested…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A police officer in California who lied to the FBI about an extortion scheme was sentenced Monday to two-and-a-half years in federal prison. Burbank police officer Anthony Valento admitted he lied to FBI agents about dating Gayle Bassett, a victim of a crime for which he was the reporting officer. Bassett was…
