By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA headquarters is housed in suburban Virginia. So is the Pentagon. So would it be that outlandish to move the legendary, but outdated FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, just down the street from the Capitol, to suburban Maryland? Maryland officials apparently think it’s not unreasonable. In fact, they think it’s…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A year-long fed and local undercover sting in the nation’s capitol netted $7.2 million in cocaine, methamphetamines and other drugs as well as 161 weapons, with 70 people arrested, Clarence Williams of the Washington Post reports. In documents unveiled Monday, Christopher Washington–one of the arrested–offered handgrenades and a rocket launcher to an…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Pat Roberts went to work on Monday to quite a surprise: red swastikas painted over the weekend on a wall of the Senator’s Wichita, Kans. office. The FBI has been called in to investigate, reports the Wichita Eagle. This was not a first for the Republican. It was the second…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite fiery rhetoric from congressional Republicans, it appears that botched gun-walking programs have not completely soured relations between Mexican and US federal law enforcement. Fox News Latino cites a Spanish-language news report that at least 80 former employees of the Mexican government are currently working for US agencies as spies. The La…
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times AUSTIN, Tex. — For nearly three years, Republicans have attacked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on national security and civil rights issues. For months, they have criticized him over a gun-trafficking investigation gone awry, with dozens of leaders calling for his resignation. Last week, more than 75…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes in the U.S. dropped during January to June of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI’s just-released Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report. The report showed that overall, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent in that period, and property crimes dipped…
By Dane Schiller Houston Chronicle Dewey Webb, head of the Houston division for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is retiring this month after a career that began in 1976. T he Oklahoma native, who can trace his family to full-blooded Choctaw and Cherokee Native Americans, has gone against moonshiners, weapons traffickers, drug…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Apparently professional sports don’t pay enough. The DEA has joined an investigation into Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd’s alleged drug dealing network, reports the Associated Press. Hurd was arrested last Wednesday night after accepting a kilo of cocaine from an undercover federal agent. Special Agent Jack Riley promised Hurd’s…
