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Rat Poison and Shrapnel Found in Bomb at MLK Day Parade in Spokane
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More details are surfacing about the mysterious bomb that was found along the parade route of the MLK Day parade in Spokane, Wash. on Jan. 17. CNN reports that the bomb contained rat poisoning and metal shrapnel, all designed to maximize damage. The Spokesman-Review reported that the rat poison is used…
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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…
ICE System Failed to Catch Illegal Immigrant in Va. Before Rape of 8-Year-Old Girl
By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County (Va.) home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place. Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and…
Mexican Drug Smugglers Use Catapult to Fling Pot into U.S.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Smugglers never seem to run out of ways to get drugs into the U.S. The latest: U.S. authorities tipped off Mexicans officials that some smugglers were using a catapult to launch marijuana packages from Mexico into the U.S. The Associated Press reported that National Guard troops in Arizona spotted the catapult…
Ex-Fed Prosecutor Named U.S. Magistrate in Baltimore
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Baltimore federal prosecutor Stephanie A. Gallagher has been named a U.S. District Magistrate Judge in Baltimore. Gallagher, 38, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Baltimore office for seven years before forming the firm Levin & Gallagher in Baltimore. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office she investigated and prosecuted a…
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…