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FBI Wants to Help Celebrate the Birthday of Top Ten Fugitive Eric Toth
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI wants to deliver Top Ten Fugitive Eric Toth something on his birthday: A Pair of handcuffs and a meal in prison. On its Facebook page today, it posted this: “Help us capture FBI Top Ten Fugitive Eric Toth, who turns 31 today. He is wanted for allegedly possessing child…
Deal Is Sweetened to Lure FBI Headquarters to Prince George County
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prince George County is trying to sweeten its deal to attract the FBI’s new headquarters, the Washington Post reports. A committee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is expected to vote Thursday on whether to offer the FBI 78 acres at the Greenbelt station to bolster a relocation deal. The Post…
FBI Seizes Records from Pittsburgh Police Department, But Officials Tight-Lipped on Details
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Pittsburgh Police Department is under a cloud of suspicion after the FBI seized documents Tuesday from police headquarters, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard would only confirm that documents were taken FBI agents and declined to talk about specifics. Suspicion has followed police Chief Nate Harper since a former…
FBI Criticized for Handling of Mentally Ill Man Accused in Attempted Bombing in Oakland
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Depending on whom you believe, Matthew Aaron Llaneza was either bent on committing terrorism in the name of Allah or was psychotic and easily manipulated by the FBI, the Mercury News reports. The 28-year-old San Jose is accused of trying to detonate what turned out to be a phony bomb Friday in…
The FBI and Biker Busts
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — The FBI has a long, storied history of infiltrating and prosecuting the Outlaws Motorcycle Club (OMC) as an organized-crime gang, including some high-profile cases in recent years. On Jan. 31, a Baltimore man put himself squarely in the middle of one such probe in Philadelphia by allegedly…
Elderly Man Who Claims He’s Dying Arrested in Illinois for Robbing Bank
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 73-year-old man who robbed a bank in Illinois, saying he only had six months to live, was charged Monday and could spend the rest of his life behind bars, the Chicago Tribune reports. Walter Unbehaun, of Rock Hill, N.C., was arrested by FBI agents and local police outside of a hotel…
FBI Agent Under Investigation for Using Bureau Van for Second Job
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent is under fire after a TV news team caught him working a second job in Houston while allegedly on the clock with the bureau. After the KHOU 11 News I-Team questioned Supervisory Special Agent Brian Ritchie about setting up ATMs during the workday, the FBI has opened an investigation,…
FBI Names First Woman – a 29-year-veteran – to Lead Salt Lake City Division
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mary F. Rook, a 29-year veteran of the FBI, was named the first woman to serve as special agent in charge of the bureau’s Salt Lake City Division in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The announcement Monday marks yet another big achievement by a female FBI agent in a field that…