By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Burglary isn’t the wisest career path. But burglarizing an FBI agent’s home — well, that’s just downright dumb. Jeffrey Michael Drach, 20, and Justin Wesley Case, 21, were each sentenced Monday to two years in prison for the November burglary of the agent’s Yorba Linda, Calif. garage, the Orange County Register…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Washington Wizards basketball star Gilbert Arenas voluntarily met Monday afternoon with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington and D.C. police to “explain the circumstances surrounding the presence of his unloaded firearms at the Verizon Center last month,” his attorney said in a statement. Also on Monday, Areanas issued a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the better known federal prosecutors in the nation, has traditionally grabbed headlines for going after bad guys. But this time, the 49-year-old is grabbing headlines for something far more personal: His wife Jennifer Letzkus, a Chicago teacher, gave birth to a baby boy Conor…
UPDATE (6:35 EST); The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that the gun man, Johnny Lee Wicks, was upset about losing a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration. The paper reported that he walked into the courthouse, pulled a shotgun out from underneath his jacket and opened fire. To read more details click here. By Allan…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Threats and “inappropriate communications” aimed at fed judges and fed prosecutors have spiked in the past six years, according to a review by the Justice Department Inspector Gen. Glenn Fine. The review found that such incidents jumped from 592 in fiscal 2003 to 1,278 in fiscal 2008, and some…
New Orleans Times-Picayune Editorial Page NEW ORLEANS — Few public officials in metro New Orleans enjoy the popularity and respect of U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Under his watch, the U.S. attorney’s office has maintained an aggressive and important campaign against public corruption across our region and assisted local governments in fighting violent crime, earning Mr….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a bloody bloody drug war south of the border, the Mexican government is showing signs that it’s not backing down. The Associated Press is reporting that Mexican authorities have captured Carolos Beltran Leyva, the brother Beltran Leyva, a major drug boss who was gunned down in a military raid last…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It now appears that it wasn’t only the Americans who dropped the ball in the case of the suspected Nigerian plane bomber. The Times of London reports that British security services “knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had ‘multiple communications’ with Islamic extremists in Britain” but none…
