By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 26-year-old man was charged earlier this week with possession of a firearm after felony convictions after he tried to avoid arrest by shooting at members of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force in the Kansas City, Ks., area. According to an FBI affidavit, task force members tried to arrest Nicholas…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s just hope Bernie Madoff’s ego isn’t bruised knowing that people aren’t immediately snapping up his swanky properties in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. Reuters news service reports that the government has had to lower the asking price, the result of a a soft market. “Madoff’s 4,000-square-foot duplex Manhattan penthouse, ‘perched…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A man was killed Wednesday after being hit by two armored Secret Service vehicles on a freeway at the D.C.-Maryland border, the Washington Post reported. One of the cars, a limo, is sometimes used by Vice President Biden. The man, whose name had not been released as of Wednesday,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The case against mobster John Gotti Jr. went to the jury for deliberations in Manhattan federal court, but not before some last minute drama on Tuesday. Yes, for a while Tuesday morning, the defendant himself did not want to leave his jail cell to show up in court for the closing…
Crooked DEA task force member, Mark James Lunsford, a Baltimore police detective, is causing some big problems. City paper reporter Van Smith lays it all out in this report. Balt. Detective’s Sykesville, Md. home the FBI raided/ baltimore city paper photo By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — On Aug. 3, Ira Jimmy Martin…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial ex-New York police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is a free man again — at least for now. A federal judge in White Plains, N.Y., who tossed him in jail Oct. 20 for violating his pre-trial conditions, released him Tuesday so he could go home to his New Jersey mansion pending his…
Could things have been done differently? Let’s hope. Though agencies seem to get defensive at times like this when the finger-pointing starts, it’s necessary to exam and air concerns, or nothing will improve. By Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — As the nation mourned the 13 people shot dead…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas Wassell, a former FBI agent who went on to become well-known Atlanta TV news anchor, has died at age 84 in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Wassell worked as an agent from 1951 to 1960 in Chicago and Miami and later went on to become an anchorman at WSB-tv in…
