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FBI Spied on Civil Rights Commission Worker
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New records show the FBI was secretly monitoring a U.S. Civil Rights Commission worker decades ago to keep a better eye on black activists in Memphis, Tenn., the Associated Press reports. The FBI collected photographs of Rosetta Miller-Perry, studied her political views and even investigated her love life, according to the Commercial…
FBI: Mexican Drug Cartel Profits Invested in U.S. Horse Racing
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican drug cartel is accused of using Bank of America Corp. to invest money generated from selling cocaine into U.S. horse racing, Bloomberg reports. Jose Trevino-Morales, the brother of the cartel’s alleged leader, was indicted by a grand jury June 11. “The ultimate goal of this money laundering operation was to…
California Senate Passes Bill to Protect Illegal Immigrants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a dramatic departure from tough laws in Arizona and Alabama, the California Senate Thursday approved a bill that would bar local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration officials on most cases, the LA Times reports. The Trust Act bans local police from detaining suspects for possible deportation unless they have serious…
FBI Launching Pilot to Keep Database on Eye Scans
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is upgrading its tools to track criminals. A $1 billion upgrade includes expanding its fingerprint database to include iris scans, facial images and palm prints, Slate reports. By 2014, the FBI hopes to roll out a pilot nationwide database of iris images from other law enforcement agencies. Slate reports that…
FBI Agent Charged With Stealing Money That Was to Go to Informants
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Oklahoma City FBI agent is accused of pocketing public funds that were supposed to pay confidential informants, the Associated Press reports. Timothy Klotz was charged with embezzlement of public money in excess of $1,000. Federal prosecutors say he forged signatures of FBI agents and U.S. Air Force investigators to get…
Ex-FBI Employee: I saw Angels at Site of 9/11 Plane Crash in PA
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI employee says she saw angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed during the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Associated Press reports. Lillie Leonardi, a community affairs coordinator, was a liaison between law enforcement and the victims of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash when she arrived…
Three Questioned in Shooting of ICE Agent
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police have detained three people for questioning in the shooting of a federal immigration agent in South Texas, the Associated Press reports. It’s unclear if the trio was involved in the non-fatal shooting of Kelton Harrison, an agent for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino…
FBI Seminar Simulates Dangerous Crimes
By Mark Naymik The Plain Dealer I recently shot and killed a woman. Leaning into her car’s open passenger-side window, I fired my weapon just as she pulled out a pistol, partially hidden under her thigh, and pointed it at me. I was lucky. I should have noticed the pistol sooner. Had I been a…