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Murders Dropping in U.S. Towns Bordering Mexico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Amid all the gloomy and scary news about the Mexican drug cartel violence, comes a little good news. USA Today reports that beefed up law enforcement patrols along the U.S. Mexican border may be helping prevent some of the Mexican drug cartel violence from spilling over to the U.S….
Charges Filed in Detroit in Attempted Plane Bombing; Authorities Say Device Contained Highly Explosive Chemical PETN
Eric Holder Jr. issued statement By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal criminal complaint charging the Nigerian National with trying to blow up the Christmas day plane from Amsterdam to Detroit, said the explosive device contained PETN or pentaerythritol, a highly explosive material. The charging document filed in federal court in Detroit Saturday, charged Umar Farkouk…
Criminals Who Alter Face and Fingerprints Don’t Always Have Luck
By Allan Lengel For AOl News WASHINGTON — Plastic surgery is not just for the vain at heart. Recent cases show that criminals still use flesh-altering procedures to try to dodge the law. But it doesn’t always help. Just in the past two weeks, drug traffickers from Detroit and Phoenix whose fingerprints had been surgically…
John Perren Named Interim Head of FBI Washington Field Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John G. Perren, special agent in charge of counter-terrorism at the FBI’s Washington field office, has been named the interim head of the office, authorities said Wednesday. Perren will replace Joseph Persichini Jr, the assistant director in charge of the office, who officially retires on Christmas day. Perren’s appointment…
Ex-Gov Blago’s Brother Wants FBI Intercepted Conversations Kept Private
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The brother of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn’t happy –not at all. Brother Robert Blagojevich, who faces criminal charges himself in connection with the public corruption case against his brother, is asking a Chicago federal judge to keep private 208 phone calls he claims the FBI wrongly intercepted, according to a…
Fed Agents Behaving Badly in 2009
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The Inept Criminal is by now a well-established and extensively chronicled archetype, with whole Web sites devoted to the misadventures of dumb, stupid and just plain crazy law-breakers. But law enforcement has its own share of bunglers, and Sphere believes they deserve attention, too. Herewith, a sampling…
Withholding Autopsy Report of Imam Killed by FBI in Michigan Raises Suspicions
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Muslim community in the Detroit area is raising questions about a delay in the release of a medical examiner’s report on the death of an Imam, who was shot and killed by the FBI on Oct. 28, the Detroit News is reporting. “The unfortunate and perhaps unintended consequence is that…