By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest danger to youth is a concoction called K-2, packets of herbs that can be smoked like marijuana to get high, USA Today reports. Reporter Donna Leinwand writes that almost a dozen states and multiple cities have passed bans or are considering passing ones of the product known as “Spice”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire. A Wisconsin state narcotics agent, who fled in his car when confronted by FBI agents last March, is expected to plead guilty to stealing $1,100 in an FBI sting, according to the Associated Press. Johnny Santiago, a special agent with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, is expected to plead guilty in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This time it’s no movie. The DEA last week arrested the wife of a 1970s Harlem heroin dealer Frank Lucas, who inspired the Denzel Washington film “American Gangster”, for trying to sell two kilos of heroin at a Puerto Rico hotel, the Associated Press reported. Julianna Farrait, 70, appeared Thursday in…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As predicted, President Obama nominated attorney James M. Cole as deputy attorney general Friday, filling the number two spot left vacant by the resignation of David Ogden, who stepped down after less than a year, the Washington Post reported. Ogden and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. did not get…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A behavior-protection program designed to spot suspected terrorists and others who pose dangers at U.S. airports doesn’t appear to be working all that well. The Boston Globe reports that at least 16 people who were later tied to terror plots passed through U.S. airports without being detected by federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Legendary syndicated newspaper column Robert Novak, who was nicknamed “The Prince of Darkness”, was on the FBI’s radar way before he stepped into a controversy in 2003 by publishing the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The Washington Post’s Joe Stephens reports that just obtained FBI records show the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama nominated two more U.S. Attorneys on Thursday, this time for Pittsburgh and Knoxville, Tenn. The nominees are: Private attorneys David J. Hickton for the Pittsburgh post and William C. Killian for Knoxville, according to a White House press release. Hickton replaces the controversial Bush-appointed Mary Beth Buchanan,…
