By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Baltimore County man was sentenced to eight years on Tuesday for threatening to kill an ATF task force officer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said. After prison, Allen Shepperd, 38, will be on supervised release for three years. According to Shepperd’s plea agreement, the Baltimore County Police Department and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents returned to an elementary school in Brooklyn on Wednesday in an ongoing inquiry into a teacher’s aide who arrested this week on child molestation charges, reports the New York Times. Agents were searching for more victims, according to the Times. Taleek Brooks, 40, was out on bail after a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI announced on Wednesday the sentencing of three grown men for taunting African-American middle school students in Louisiana. James Lee Wallis, Tony L. Johnson and Brial Wallis admitted to hanging a dead raccoon from a noose on a flagpole in front of Beekman Junior High School, in Beekman,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York man has pleaded guilty this week to stealing pieces of our nation’s history. According to the FBI, Barry H. Landau, 63, of New York, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy and theft of historical documents from museums across New England, including original documents of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A council member in a southern California town may be off the council soon, after pleading guilty on Monday to felony conspiracy charges. The charges stem from City of Commerce Councilman Robert Fierro’s attempt to interfere with an investigation into his campaign’s finances, reports the LA Times. Fierro reimbursed certain campaign…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous that obtained the personal information of some West Virginia police officers and posted the information online, in what the hackers called a warning against police brutality, reports ABC. The group of hackers, referred to as the CabinCr3w by the West Virginia…
