By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David Bowdich, the special assistant to the associate deputy director at FBI headquarters, is heading out to the field to become special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Division in the Los Angeles office. Bowdich started with the FBI in 1995 and was first assigned to the San Diego Field…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com April Brooks, whose career included investigations into children-related crimes and the mysterious death of a Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna in 2003, has been named special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in the FBI’s very busy New York Division. Brooks, special assistant to the executive assistant director of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Santa Fe Springs Councilman accepted $11,500 in bribes from a marijuana dispensary owner who was working as an FBI informant, according to a plea agreement released Thursday, the L.A. Times reports. In the latest example of corruption in a Los Angeles County town, the case against Councilman Joseph Serrano Sr. alleges…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former official for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sentenced Friday in Los Angeles to two years in prison and ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution for obstruction of justice, giving false information to a federal prosecutor and a federal judge in Florida, and devising a scheme to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There were a whole lot of new appointments announced at the FBI this week. Andrew G. McCabe was named assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. He last served as deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division. Jennifer R. Sanchez was named assistant director of the Information Technology Services Division (ITSD). Her…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Steven J. Bogdalek is the new head of ATF in Los Angeles, which includes Southern California, the agency announced. Bogdalek began his career with ATF in Detroit in 1987, according to the PR Newswire. From 2002 until this latest appointment, he served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the St. Paul…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It’s all fun and games til your toy purchases may be supporting international drug cartels. An 18-month investigation of L.A.company, Woody’s Toys Inc., by Homeland Security’s ICE and the DEA’s Southern California Drug Task Force yielded video of employees receiving bricks of cash in fast food chain parking lots, among other incriminating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An investigation is underway in the fatal shooting of an unarmed double murder suspect, who was shot and killed last week by Los Angeles Police and an FBI agent, the Los Angeles Times reports. Initially, authorities said the man was armed. On Wednesday, the LAPD and FBI clarified the matter, the…
