By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The union that represents field agents at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is giving the top management an icy “vote of no confidence”, the Washington Times reported. The paper reported that the rank and file vote was unanimous, and that agents say the leadership had “abandoned” its core…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has a backlog of 3,211 forensic DNA cases, which would take two years to eliminate if there was no new staff or new cases, according to a report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. “The forensic DNA case backlog at the FBI Laboratory can have significant effects,”…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com For a big-time Louisiana drug trafficker, the dog and cockfighting ring served as the ideal venue to help expand his drug ring. Pedro Mendez Ramos, of Church Point, La., who authorities described as “an avid pit bull and cock fighter”, used more than 300 gamecocks and 60 pit bulls as a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 55-year-old Texas cop had a nice little thing going — that is until he got busted by ATF and the Texas Rangers. Authorities charged that Harry Leroy Kelly, as a cop with the Cleveland Police Department in Liberty County, Tex., sold guns and ammunition from the evidence room. He is…
UPDATE: Tues, 10:55 p.m. — Jurors begin the 10th day of deliberations. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let the nail biting continue. Jurors in the public corruption trial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich begin deliberating Monday for the ninth day in U.S. District Court in downtown Chicago. Good chance a verdict will come by week’s end —…
