By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of two high-powered weapons and body armor from an FBI agent’s car in North Carolina, WSOCTV.com reports. The shotgun and rifle were stolen from the agent’s car sometime between midnight and 8 a.m. Monday in the Hunter Oaks…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s still anyone’s guess why someone would ambush two Pennsylvania state troopers and then shoot them with a high-caliber rifle on Sept. 12. One special agent with the FBI offered some insight into the suspect – 31-year-old Eric Matthew Frein. Frein lived with his parents and likely was unsatisfied with life, said…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Whoever takes over the embattled Secret Service will face an insurmountable task. They must handle plunging morale, a tarnished reputation, budget holes and plenty of blunders that led to the resignation of Director Julia Pierson, the Wall Street Journal reports. How disgruntled are employees? A 2013 survey found that Secret Service…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Cleveland man was on his way to Puerto Rico to spread his mother’s cremated remains in the Caribbean Sea. But when Shannon Thomas opened his bag, he discovered that his mom’s ashes had spilled all over the suitcase with a TSA inspection notice, the Cleveland Scene reports. In a lawsuit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge has awarded $1.1 million in damages to a former undercover DEA informant who was kidnapped in Colombia and held captive for more than three months, the Legal Times reported. The Legal Times reports that a U.S. Court of Federal Claims said the informant, identified in court papers as…
By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal agent was in critical but stable condition Tuesday night and a suspect was dead after a shooting during an undercover law enforcement operation in Athens. A second suspect has been charged in the case. State and federal officials told reporters an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent…
By Boston Globe Editorial Board For the federal agency tasked with protecting the president, it’s embarrassing enough that a man could scale the White House fence and make it well into the executive mansion before being apprehended. But the Secret Service’s defensive response to the incident, including withholding key information about the breach, is a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Want to spy on someone and have immediate access to their calls, texts and photos? There’s an app for that – and the FBI has tracked down the maker. The Daily Mail reports that the FBI shut down a website selling the “spyware” app and arrested a Pakistani national in Los Angeles…
