FBI Agents in Training Visit MLK Memorial As Part of Cultural-Sensitivity Training
FBI agents who undergo months-long training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., undergo target practice and training for surveillance and self-defense.
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ATF’s Scott Sweetow Named Deputy Director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center in Quantico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF agent Scott Sweetow has been named deputy director for the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC). The intergovernmental agency, which is based at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., coordinates efforts to gather and share intelligence about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), helps disarm and disrupt IEDs, link them to their makers…
Retired FBI Agent Thomas Louis Hughes Dies at Age 77
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas Louis Hughes, an FBI agent from 1961 to 1986, died last week at this home in Virginia Beach. He was 77. According to an obituary on the Altmeyer Funeral Homes website, Hughes, since 2003, survived amputations, surgeries, and numerous hospitalizations. “Through it all, his quiet strength of will and pleasant…
FBI Agents Sidelined for More Than Three Years After Charges Were Dismissed Against Them
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When FBI agents Matt and Katia Litton were arrested in an alleged steroid ring in September 2010, they were shocked. Sure enough, the charges were dropped two months later. The couple said they were taking steroids because they were trying to have a baby, the Washington Post reports. Still, three years after…
Everything You Want to Know About the FBI’s Hogan’s Alley
Hogan’s Alley is a tactical training facility in Quantico, Va. used by the FBI Training Academy. The 10-acre site provides a realistic training environment for new agents. By Larry Wack Retired FBI Agent Questions about the name and origin of the FBI’s “Hogan’s Alley” surface often with law enforcement personnel, gun…
FBI Agent Faces Trial After Shooting His Wife During an Alleged Confrontation
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent has found himself on the wrong side of the law. A second-degree murder trial is scheduled for Arthur “Art” Bernard Gonzales to begin on Oct. 16, Frederickburg.com reports. Gonzales, who has been working as a supervisory special agent-instructor at the bureau’s National Academy at Quantico, is accused of fatally…
FBI Crime Lab in Quantico, Va., Helps Track Down Terrorists Who Used IEDs
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A little-known FBI crime lab near Washington played a critical role in convicting two men who helped target American soldiers in Iraq with improvised exploding devices, the Los Angeles Times reports. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammad pleaded guilty to smuggling Stinger surface-to-air missiles and money to terrorists in Iraq from…
Column: The Unfair Treatment of Man Who Wanted Nothing More Than to Be An FBI Agent
Herman Groman is a retired FBI agent whose work included investigating public corruption and organized crime. By Herman Groman For ticklethewire.com I’m not one to easily pick up a cause. I’ve seen too many situations when after all of the hype and the dust settles, somehow the “cause” was found to be flawed. So…