By Les Zaitz The Oregonian PORTLAND, Ore. — A police operation meant to protect girls working for a pimp ended with an 18-year-old woman partially stripped, talking sex while massaging a naked police detective in a hotel room. The 2011 episode in a Vancouver, Wash., hotel was an odd conclusion to a long undercover operation…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities may be closer to finding the source of the heroin that is believed to have killed 46-year-old actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. The USA Today reports that authorities arrested four people in Manhattan on Tuesday evening and were questioning them over possible connections to the actor’s death Sunday. The suspects were found…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents rescued 16 juveniles who were forced into prostitution for the Super Bowl in the New York City area, the Associated Press reports. The children, who ranged in age from 13 to 17, were found in Newark, New York City and New Haven. At least one of the victims had spent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Private tutor Timothy Lance Lai sure knew how to boost students’ grades. Police says he’s the mastermind behind a cheating scandal at a Newport Beach high school where 11 students have been expelled for changing their grades by hacking into the district computer system, the L.A. Times reports. Now local police want…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not even members of Congress are immune to the NSA’s wide surveillance reach. During a House Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole admitted that the NSA “probably” collects phone records of lawmakers and their staff, the National Journal reports. But Justice Department official said the information isn’t used without…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Details of the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near the Arizona-Mexico border in 2010 were largely unknown – until now. The Associated Press reports that armed men had sneaked into the U.S. to rob marijuana smugglers when the attack happened, according to an account given by prosecutors. Watching the men from…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The use of marijuana by American teens continues to increase. Unlike use of other drugs and alcohol, which are either decreasing or remaining stable, the use by 8th and 10th graders went up 1.3 and 1.8 % in 2013, according to the Monitoring the Future study conducted by the University of…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The use of marijuana by American teens continues to increase. Unlike use of other drugs and alcohol, which are either decreasing or remaining…
