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Ex-DEA Agent: Pot Will Become Legal As Attitudes Change
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While some former federal agents are calling for the government to crack down on marijuana laws, at least one ex-DEA agent said it may be a lost cause because pot legalization is only a matter of time. In a Houston Chronicle column written by Gary Hale, former chief of intelligence of the…
Unusual Rift Between ATF, Justice Department Draws FBI, DEA to Help with Firearm Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and DEA have stepped in to help investigate weapons cases after federal prosecutors in Nevada stopped working with the ATF, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. But the newspaper said neither agency is probing firearm sales or trafficking cases, leaving the state with little protection. Gun data obtained by the Gazette-Journal shows…
Family of Missing FBI Agent Pleads for Help from World Leaders on NYC Billboards
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nothing yet has worked for the family of a former FBI agent missing since traveling to Iran five years ago. So the family of 64-year-old Bob Levinson, with the help of the FBI, rented billboards in Times Square and subway entrances near the United Nations with an urgent plea to the visiting…
FBI Reduces Backlog of Forensic DNA Tests
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Forensic DNA tests are notoriously backlogged. But an increase in staffing and the use of automated technology have contributed to reduce the FBI lab’s backlog by 87% from 2010 to March of this year, the Associated Press reports. The lab and timely tests are incredibly important because DNA evidence taken from crime scenes…
After Fighting Corruption for 25 Years, FBI Agent John Roberts Retires
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent whose work helped jail dozens of Philadelphia and New Jersey politicians is retiring after 25 years with the bureau, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Agent John Roberts spent 20 years of his career in Philadelphia, where he became an expert on corruption and the politicians who turn to the dark…
FBI Probes Fatal Police Shooting of Double Amputee in Houston
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating whether a Houston police officer used excessive force by fatally shooting a double-amputee in a wheelchair at a home for the mentally ill, the Associated Press reports. The AP said police were responding to a call about an irate one-armed, one-legged man who wouldn’t come down. One of…
Ex-FBI Agent Joseph Pistone, AKA Donnie Brasco, Warns Canadian Officials of Mafia Dangers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Agent Joseph Pistone, better known by his alias Donnie Brasco, told a commission in Canada that the mafia is a menacing “plague on our society,” the Montreal Gazette reports. During the highly anticipating testimony, Pistone said the structures and traditions of the mafia are identical around the globe. “That’s why…
Wife of Missing Ex-FBI Agent Pleas with Iran for Help Finding Husband
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The wife of a former FBI agent missing for five years traveled to New York to urge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to help find her husband, NBC 4 New York reports. Bob Levinson, 64, traveled to the Iranian island of Kish on March 8, 2007, and never returned. His wife, Christine Levinson,…