A steady run of arrests continued as agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco andFirearms pursued tips and found individuals with illegal rifles, but no prime suspect.
After the Oklahoma City bombing, for instance, federal agents pursued tips that led them to detain and interrogate several Middle Eastern men wanted as possible witnesses, before the police connected the bombing to Timothy J. McVeigh, who had been pulled over in a traffic stop.
In addition to pursuing the tips from its readers, Talking Points Memo has been known to give them assignments like wading through virtual piles of documents released by the administration.
Mr. Bailey's department was pursuing a tip that someone was offering to forge documents for prisoners for $8,000.
But the police were pursuing a tip that Mr. Chan might have had ties to illegal gambling in Chinatown.
More, too, on how an informant and two Secret Service agents who watched someone named Preston Brown for several months, pursuing a tip that he was preparing to print counterfeit money (the counterfeiting case collapsed), could have testified that the innocent Preston Brown was the bad guy.
With more than 2,500 callers to a special police line, detectives have been pursuing 600 "credible tips," Chief Moose said, including suggestions about the truck, suspicious neighbors and countless other aspects.
FBI special agent Steve Anthony said authorities "pursued every tip" provided by the public over the years.
Mr. Howard pursued the tip and followed up with Mr. Weinstein as a courtesy, but declined to publish any story".
Shortly after we arrived in Salahiya, Basam set off on foot to pursue a tip about an ISIS-owned pickup truck that was supposedly loaded with I.E.D.s.
