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U.S. Park Police Detectives Cleared in D. C. Fatal Shooting in 2009
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – U.S. Park Police detectives won’t face any criminal action in connection with the fatal shooting in D.C. in 2009. The Justice Department announced Friday that it found “insufficient evidence” to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against U.S. Park Police detectives involved in the fatal shooting of Trey Joyner,…
Chicago FBI Helping in Hunt for Missing Stanley Cup Puck
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in Chicago has dealt with some pretty heady issues in the past few years, from international terrorism to the high-profile indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Now comes the case of the missing puck. The FBI’s forensics experts in Chicago have been helping to try and locate the puck…
Seinfeld and Chris Rock: Here Comes FBI Director Mueller
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Comedians like Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld don’t really have to worry about being dethroned as funny guys — at least if the competition is the straight-laced and often stoic FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. Still, from time to time, the director slips a little humor into his…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Says Organized Crime Is an International Menace
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said Friday that tentacles of organized crime go far beyond the shores of the U.S. and is an international menace. “Some believe that organized crime is a thing of the past,” Mueller said during a speech before the Citizens Crime Commission of New York. “Unfortunately,…
Internal Reports Show FBI Employees Stepping Over the Line
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In an agency with thousands of employees, some in the FBI are bound to step over the line. CNN obtained summaries of internal disciplinary reports by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility dating back to January 2008. The reports detail wrongdoing by employees including lying, drunken driving,…
Customs and Border Patrol Agent Indicted for Lying to FBI and Making Up Story
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities claim U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Andrew Rodriguez of Minnesota tried to get a transfer to the southern border by telling a big lie to federal investigators. On Thursday, an indictment was unsealed charging Rodriguez, 29, of East Grand Folks, Minn., with making a false statement to the…
Disgraced Ex-Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick Will Have Some Darn Interesting Reading While in Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Detroit’s disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who sits behind bars at a federal prison in Michigan, should have some interesting reading to pass the time. A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to give him 24 DVDs containing evidence he can review to prep for his case in which he’s accused of…
Before Az. Shooting Loughner Looked at Websites on Assassinations and Lethal Injections
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More is spilling out about Arizona shooter Jared Loughner in the weeks before he went on a shooting spree that would stun the country. The Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz reports that weeks and days before the shooting, Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer “in what investigators believe was an effort…