Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If help is requested, FBI agents may be deployed to Nigeria to help search for 276 teenage girls abducted from a school, ABC News reports. The news comes after the leader of Boko Haram, an African Islamist group, pledged to sell the girls as slaves. “God has commanded me to sell them,”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are complaining that the FBI is getting in the way of legal counsel’s constitutional rights to meet with their client in private. The Boston Globe reports that lawyers filed the complaints in court late Monday, saying FBI continues to be “needlessly intrusive.” The lawyers…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI in Salt Lake City is dealing with some pesky intruders. A variety of birds are nesting in the FBI’s parking garage – a problem that has plagued the bureau since moving into their new International Center Facility in 2012, FOX 13 reports. “Because of the vast amount of waste left by…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A scathing new book argues that Border Patrol agents have squandered the rights of undocumented immigrants by resorting to rogue tactics after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times reports. “The U.S. Border Patrol is not just the ‘men in green,’ it is a much larger complex and industrial world…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In her latest defiance of the Obama administration, DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart is unwilling to support a bill to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for federal drug crimes, the Huffington Post reports. Leonhart has departed with the administration on reforms to drug policies heralded by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. “Having…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com This is the kind of training you hope to never have to use. Nearly 200 members of various law enforcement agencies converged on a mall in Mobile, Alabama on Sunday for an active shooter exercise, FOX 10 reports. The scenario at Bel Air Mall was a shooter on a rampage after a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are still scratching their heads after a young woman tried to pass through security with 81 pounds of marijuana. KHON 2 reports that Anastasia Murdock, 26, was carrying about $100,000 worth of pot in vacuum sealed bags in her luggage at Oakland International Airport on Friday. “Security says she may…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Medical marijuana cardholders in New Mexico are running into trouble in New Mexico courtesy of the Border Patrol. The Albuquerque Journal reports that patients are afraid to travel in the state because of Border Patrol checkpoints and crackdowns of marijuana, which is still illegal nationally. The crackdown comes as the Justice Department,…
