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Mexico Hopes to Step of Pressure to Extradite U.S. Border Patrol Agent

Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

 Mexican leaders are hoping to pressure the U.S. to extradite one of it border patrol agents to Mexico after a fatal border shooting, reports Reuters.

The Mexican Senate urged President Felipe Calderon’s administration to pressure the extradition.

The Sept. 3 fatal shooting is the second in as many months that has incensed Mexican officials, Reuters reported.

The U.S. said it is investigating the shooting that American officials said was prompted by rocks being thrown at agents.

Border Patrol Station Opening in Arizona, Honors Fallen Agent Brian Terry

Steve Neavlng
ticklethewire.com

 A grand opening is planned Tuesday for the U.S. Border Patrol’s new station in Naco, Arizona, the Associated Press reports.

The station will honor Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed in December 2010 in a gun skirmish with armed Mexican bandits on the U.S. side of the Arizona and Mexican border, the AP reported.

Terry’s death became one of the key focuses of the an investigation into the government’s botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.

The new station can accommodate more tha 450 agents and support employees.

Retired FBI Special Agent Treks Across Country to Raise Awareness, Money for Fallen Heroes

Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

A retired FBI special agent is riding a bike across the country with his wife to raise money and awareness for a nonprofit that assists surviving family members of fallen law enforcement personnel, the Syracuse Post-Standard reports.

Jim Caverly, who retired in 1999 after 27 years at the FBI, started his trip May 25 in Oregon and is expected to finish in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the end of the month.

The cause is for Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS), for which Caverly, 69, and his wife Jeanne worked as grief counselors since 1990.

For more information, visit BicyclingAcrossAmericaForCOPS.org.

Homeland Security Expert: Libya Needs Help with ‘Fragile’ Security

Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

 The U.S. has failed to support Libya after the killing of its longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011, said former Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend, CNN reports.

Townsend made the remarks Wednesday morning after the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens.

Townsend said the country has a “very fragile” state of security, CNN reported.

“The first indication of a working democracy if that it can protect its own people,” Townsend said. “And Libya is struggling. I was there. To take in the military elements, the ministry of interior and border guards [are] trying to get the equipment they need. And the attention of the international community, quite frankly, has turned elsewhere.”

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FBI Stays Busy in Metro Detroit, Targeting Suburban Warren

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

 As jury selection continues in  the corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, FBI agents are investigating suburban Warren city government over a trash hauling contract, the Detroit News reports.

The FBI is focusing on Deputy Public Service Director Gus Ghanam  (pictured here) and the purchase of garbage trucks, according to the Detroit News.

A subpoena targeted records of Detroit Renewable Energy, which was involved in taking the city’s trash to an incinerator, the News reported.

The FBI has been busy in metro Detroit, heading investigations at Detroit City Hall and school districts in Highland Park and Pontiac.

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