By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexico on Wednesday extradited drug kingpin Oscar Arriola to Colorado to face drug charges, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Thursday. He will appear in court in Colorado Thursday. Authorities said he was flown on a DEA plane from Mexico to El Paso, Tex, to Denver. Arriola had been custody in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Michigan attorney John Stephen Shelly found a way to supplement his income from his law practice. The 49-year-old ran part of a gambling ring out of his law offices in suburban Detroit in St. Clair Shores as well as bars in Detroit and Dearborn, authorities said. Earlier this week,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Advances in DNA testing aren’t just being used to solve murders and rapes. The FBI is hoping to take advantage of the new advances by submitting evidence from the great art heist 20 years ago at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston which included three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The trial in Brooklyn federal court involving right wing racist Internet radio host Hal Turner illustrates the tough balancing act the FBI has to deal with when handling an informant who is less than an ideal citizen. Turner is accused of posting messages last summer on his blog advocating the death…
By Steven Levin As a recovering federal prosecutor, I see an occasional injustice that I might not have seen when I was with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland. A businessman, for instance, is wrongfully targeted and subsequently suffers from the toll such an investigation takes on both his personal and professional…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama on Wednesday nominated Willie R. Stafford, a background investigator for the Greensboro, N.C. police epartment, for the U.S. Marshal spot for the Middle District of North Carolina. His bio is a follows, according to a White House press release: Willie R. Stafford currently serves as a background investigator for…
