*not the actual dummy/photo throwthings.com By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Jerry Smolinsky may be no dummy, but he was pretty close to one on Friday. The 55-year-old ventriloquist was riding in a cab Friday morning in Arlington, Va., with his dummy in tow, when he told the driver he had explosives and was on…
Stu McArthur By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Stu McArthur, an Inspector in the FBI Inspection Division at headquarters, is leaving the mothership to head up the Springfield, Ill. office as special agent in charge. He replaces Karen Spangenberg, who was recently named deputy assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division. McArthur started his FBI…
It doesn’t take much to bump into a conflict of interest in the federal justice system. Prosecutor Richard Zabel and his office did the smart thing by declaring the conflict of interest. End of story. Or at least it should be. By BRIAN ROSS and JOSEPH RHEE ABC NEWS Just days after being appointed, the…
Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A triple-murder suspect who has been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List since 2005 along with such notables as Osama bin laden, has been captured in Mexico, the Associated Press reports. Mexican federal police caught Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco in the Pacific…
