By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sometimes law enforcement wishes not everyone got along. USA Today reports that rival prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia “are brokering unusual criminal alliances outside prison to assist Mexican drug cartel operations in the U.S. and Mexico.” Inside the prisons, the paper reported, the groups…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Well, social networking isn’t just for socializing anymore. An internal Justice Department document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows federal agents are going undercover on such social networks as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter to investigate cases, according to the Associated Press. The AP reports that agents…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who investigated white collar crime in Orange County, Calif., pleaded not guilty Monday to using the FBI computer to obtain information he was not authorized to access, the Associated Press reported. Peter H. Norell Jr., who resigned after criminal charges were filed on March 9, appeared before a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Where Michael David Barrett is headed, he may not want to know what’s on the other side of a peep hole. He’s off to prison. The Chicago-area man was sentenced Monday afternoon in Los Angeles federal court to 2 1/2 years in prison for taking nude videos of ESPN television personality…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Three people with ties to the U.S. consulate murdered in the violent Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday were not victims of a drive-by shooting as first reported, the FBI said today. “They were certainly targeted,” said special agent Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman for the…
The story stems from a 1999 incident down in Mexico. If anything has changed in the past 11 years it’s that things haven’t gotten much worse. By Dan Schiller Houston Chronicle They were outnumbered and outgunned behind enemy lines, but the two U.S. federal agents cornered in a Mexican border city decided to die on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Simply put: This is something you don’t want to hear: The Associated Press reports that the guns used in the recent Pentagon shooting on March 4 and the Las Vegas U.S. District Courthouse on Jan. 4 came from the Memphis police and court system. The AP reported that both…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Loyalty to mom doesn’t always pay off. Stacy Simms, 49, the daughter of the former crooked ex-Orleans Parish School Board President Ellenese Brooks-Simms in New Orleans, was sentenced late last week two years probation for opening a bank account for mom to put her bribe money in, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
