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One of Largest-Ever Crackdowns on Gangs Nets Nearly 1,000 Arrests
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s being billed as one of the largest crackdowns on gangs. Federal agents arrested about 1,000 accused gang members across 282 cities in the past few months, The Christian Science Monitor reports. The six-week crackdown, “Project Wildfire,” involved 239 gangs. Project Wildfire is “one of the largest operations we’ve ever conducted…
Holy Smokes! DEA Wants to Triple Production of Government’s Marijuana Supply
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The normally anti-marijuana DEA officially recommended that the federal government triple its production of almost 900 pounds of pot for research in 2015. The proposal, endorsed by DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, is intended to provide a sufficient amount of marijuana to conduct research on the dangers and the medical benefits of…
Obsessed Former TSA Agent Gets 6 Months in Jail for Hidden Videos, Pictures
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Nashville TSA agent said he became so obsessed with a woman that he took hidden videos of her in an airport bathroom and broke into her house five times. Daniel Boykin, 33, was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday, and Judge Randall Wyatt advised the former agent…
Secret Service Supervisor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Employee at Office After Party
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In yet another blow to the Secret Service’s reputation, a high-ranking supervisor is on administrative leave following complaints from a female employee that he sexually assaulted her at the agency’s headquarters following a celebration for his new job to run the Louisville office. Instead of reporting to his new job, Xavier…
DEA Sued Following Discovery That Agency Collected Americans’ Phone Records
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone call records violated the constitutional rights of Americans, alleges the Human Rights Watch in a lawsuit against the agency. Forbes reports that the suit comes just a day after a USA Today report on the surveillance program. The DEA reportedly amassed billions of phone…
Why South Carolina Cop Got Caught Killing Unarmed Walter Scott
By Scott Lemieux The Week He probably would have gotten away with it. That’s the sobering reality of the video of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting Walter L. Scott as he ran away, not posing the slightest threat to the officer. The utter indifference to human life evident in the video, shot by…
FBI Arrests Louisville Man Accused of Threatening to Blow Up Building
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Louisville man is accused of threatening to blow up an unidentified building and has been arrested, the FBI announced. Agents arrested Robert Paul Cardwell, 30, while working with the FBI’s Detroit Division. The FBI released the following statement: SAC Howard S. Marshall announced today the arrest of Robert Paul Cardwell…
FBI Informant Code-Named Mellow Was Anything But As he Helped Bust 24 Suspects
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Don’t let his code name with the FBI fool you. Informant “Mellow,” as he’s code-named by the bureau, is anything but mellow. MassLive.com reports that David Rodriguez, a former Latin Kings ember, helped target 24 suspected drug and gun dealers for the FBI in the less than a year in Massachusetts. Rodriguez…