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Off-Duty Hawaii FBI Agent Shot Man Brandishing Fake Gun
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man shot and wounded by an off-duty FBI agent in Honolulu on Sunday was brandishing an airsoft gun that shoots plastic pellets, but resembles a real gun, the Honolulu Star Bulletin reported. “The important thing is not what kind of weapon he was carrying, but the perception of the agent…
FBI Impersonator Who Hired Assistant Pleads Guilty in Virginia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brenna Marie Reilly had quite a fantasy. Now comes the reality. Reilly, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., to impersonating an FBI agent, a fantasy she played out to the fullest. She even hired an assistant. The reality is that she faces a maximum sentence of…
FBI Arrests Chicago Cop For Lying to Agents
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago cop Victor Brown found himself on the wrong side of the law Monday when he was arrested by the FBI and internal affairs. The Chicago Tribune reports that Brown, 36, faces charges of lying to FBI agents about taking cash from another cop in exchange for a promise that he…
Fed Court Seldom Gets Out of Hand: Monday Was an Exception in Detroit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Things seldom get out of hand in federal court. Sometimes a defense attorney or prosecutor asks a witness an objectionable question that stirs a round of passionate arguments. Sometimes a judge loudly scolds. or even screams at an attorney. But Monday, the Detroit News reported that jurors in the Highwaymen Motorcycle…
FBI Asked Homeland Security To Limit “No Fly List” Notification to Airlines About NY Bomber
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be that not every airline was given emergency notification that NY car bomber Faisal Shahzad had been put on the no fly list? Newsweek’s DeClassified blog says YES. It reports that the FBI asked Homeland Security officials to limit the notification to a select number of airlines out of…
FBI Report: More Law Enforcement Officers Died in Line of Fire in 2009
By Allan Lengel For AOL News From three Pittsburgh cops gunned down in one day to a U.S. border patrol agent ambushed by Mexican teens, the year 2009 was an especially deadly one for local and federal law enforcement, according to the FBI. In its preliminary report, the FBI found a 17 percent jump in…
Off-Duty Hawaii FBI Agent Shoots and Wounds Armed Man
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An off-duty FBI agent shot and wounded a 27-year-old man in Honululu on Sunday around 1 p.m., the Honolulu Advertiser reported. The man was out on bail after posing as a cop on a college campus. The paper reported that Martin Boegel, 27, of Makiki, was brandishing a gun outside his…