By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The National Rifle Association has never really been much of a friend of ATF. The NRA sees the agency as carrying out a mission that is contrary to its own. So it’s interesting that NRA News has put together a video that casts an ATF agent in good light. Then again,…
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com FBI agents are in Hawaii searching for the suspect of a two bombings in California that targeted companies that tested animals for products. Hawaii News Now reports that authorities are also erecting signs offering a $250,000 for the capture of Daniel Andreas San Diego, who is suspected of two bombings in 2003….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eric Toth, a former teacher placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List in 2012 for producing pornography, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison, Reuters reports. Toth took videos and photographs of children while he was a camp counselor in Wisconsin and a teacher in Washington D.C. Toth, who pleaded…
By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Crossing into the U.S. illegally is not a capital crime. Yet since 2010, some 20 people have been fatally shot by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border. The head of the Border Patrol has taken the correct and necessary step of making clear to his agents that using…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol recruit taking a polygraph test for a job failed miserably. So much so, according to CBS 8, a search warrant has been filed in San Diego County after he admitted to possessing child porn. The 22-year-old man, whose identity was not released, told authorities he possessed 14 images of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama already has a sweet ride. But Homeland Security is looking for the next-generation presidential limousine for Obama’s replacement in 2017. It can’t be just any car, according to the proposal. “Phase 1, armor development, is currently underway. Phase 2 work will include integration of the armor design developed during Phase…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did an FBI agentkill his estranged wife in self-defense last year? A Stafford County, Va. jury is set to begin deliberations today in the second-degree murder trial of Arthur Gonzalez, who shot his wife in the chest four times at their home. Gonzalez, 43, claims his wife, Julia Serna Gonzalez, was attacking…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Assistant Director Mike Prout of the U.S. Marshals Service was among a group of U.S. law enforcement officials who are currently in Israel attending seminars on terrorism. A delegation of executives are participating in an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Counter-Terrorism Seminar (NCTS) from March 8-16, and meeting with security experts, intelligence…
