By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Big goings on in Puerto Rico. Fifty people have been charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Puerto Rico with conspiracy to commit ID fraud as part of their alleged roles in an ID trafficking scheme. The charges were announced by leaders from the Justice Department, ICE, Homeland Securities Investigations, the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Michigan woman got hit with a federal prison sentence of 3 years and 10 months for biting off the tip of a man’s nose and doing other bodily harm in an incident on the Keewenaw Bay Indian Reservation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula last April, the FBI said in a statement…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two TSA officers based out of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York are trading their jobs for jail sentences, reports the Mail Online. Coumar Pesad, 44, and Davon Webb, 31, admitted to stealing $40,000 in cash from a single checked bag, the paper reports. Persad saw money in the bag…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Amid questions of FBI tactics in pursuing terror suspects, one thing that doesn’t seem to be questioned is the rate of convictions, reports the Tampa Bay Times. Many critics have voiced concern in the media lately over whether the FBI is catching and preventing terrorists, or nurturing and cultivating people to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A man with a collection of child pornography twice as large as anything an FBI investigator had ever seen was handed the maximum 20-year sentence on Tuesday in federal court in Peoria, Ill. The size of the stash, and the 30 years Richard J. Jimenez spent collecting it, called for a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It appears some detectives in New York have been paying attention to their hip hop. Newly released files on Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard reveal a thick FBI profile of the Staten Island, New York MC. ”The detectives have documented, in their case files, that the [Wu Tang Clan] is heavily…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Pastor Christopher Iruke, 61, is going to anywhere but heaven — at least for the time being. The feds announced on Monday that the pastor of a now defunct Los Angeles church who owned and operated several fraudulent durable medical equipment (DME) supply companies was sentenced to 15 years in prison…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Feds have been busy in Detroit, where a major drug bust ended with 15 people indicted for peddling a “massive amount” of cocaine and marijuana across the metro Detroit area, reports the Detroit Free Press. All were charged with running the operation from 2008 to 2011, while three were also…
