By Allan Lengel For The Daily A 67-year-old federal judge jailed after a crime spree involving drugs, guns and a prostitute was freed Monday after serving just three weeks. Judge Jack T. Camp, Jr, a Ronald Reagan appointee, agreed to a plea deal, but many in the legal community believe Camp got off easy. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Yemen native who tried twice ramming open the cockpit door of American Airlines Flight 1561 bound for San Francisco Sunday night, and yelled “God is great” in Arabic, remained behind bars, the Associated Press reported. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday ordered Rageh Al-Murisi, 28, of California, detained….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DNA sample that could have solved a 2001 murder by a former Seattle cop languished at the FBI lab for 3 1/2 years, the station KIRO 7 news in Seattle reported. The story unfolds like this: In 2001, realtor Mike Emert, 40, was murdered in the Seattle suburb of Woodinville…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Could the new director of the FBI win out by a hair — or many hairs? I know this may sound silly, but I have a theory about hair and certain jobs. And I think this theory could be applicable to the hunt for a replacement for FBI Director…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Agents Association President Konrad Motyka on Tuesday lauded proposed legislation that would allow investigators to use court-authorized wiretaps for fraud cases involving government programs like the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) introduced language last Friday in bill H.R. 1793, the Clean-Up Government Act of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Drug tunnels continue to pop up along the U.S.-Mexican border. The latest: The Associated Press reports that authorities discovered in Nogales, Az., a fairly sophisticated 250-foot-long unfinished tunnel underneath the U.S.-Mexico border that had electricity, water pumps and ventilation. AP reported that Chief Border Patrol Agent Randy Hill says the tunnel…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The sometimes cantankerous and bigger than life N.Y. Yankee owner George Steinbrenner cooperated with the FBI on national security cases and other matters in the 1970s and 1980s, which helped him land a pardon from President Reagan in 1989, the New York Times reported. His pardon was for a conviction for…
