By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Detroit cop Patrick Hill — part of an ATF violent crime task force — was critically wounded in a shootout with a murder suspect about four weeks ago on Detroit’s west side. On Saturday night, while he remained hospitalized in critical condition, suffering from head wounds, his fellow…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — A new motion filed on behalf of convicted felon Kwame Kilpatrick indicates that he thinks he has plenty appealable issues and is innocent of the 24 criminal counts he was convicted of in March. It also talks about how he damaged his knee while getting into a U.S….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents Monday visited the Rhode Island home of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s and left with several bags. Katherine Russell married Tsarnaev three years ago and was reportedly questioned about how much she knew about the attack. “The FBI is there as part of our ongoing investigation, but we aren’t…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Kevin Curtis has had a rough month. First he was charged with mailing ricin-laced letters to President Obama and two other officials. Now, his attorney said, Curtis’ home is uninhabitable after a thorough search of his Mississippi house turned up no evidence of ricin, the Associated Press reports. Now that the charges…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of radicalizing the older brother in the Boston Marathon bombings denied any wrongdoing and said he would never condone a terrorist attack, the Washington Times reports. Mikhail Allakhverdov, 39, a convert to Islam, denied allegations leveled by relatives of Tamerian Tsarnaev. “I wasn’t his teacher. If I had been…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. government would rely heavily on drones to inspect the borders under a new bipartisan proposal to reform immigration, the Medill News Service reports. The unarmed drones are considered to be more effective and efficient than helicopters Critics charge the drones are anything but. “There’s been no evidence that (drones) have…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies that refuse to comply with wiretap orders would be penalized under FBI-backed legislation that is being drawn up by a government task force, RT reports. That means companies like Google and Facebook would be fined tens of thousands of dollars a day for refusing to cooperate. “We don’t have the ability…
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham sharply criticized law enforcement’s information-sharing system during the probe into the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, Business Insider reports. Graham said the system should have picked up on the suspicious activity of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Graham also urged federal agencies to “up our game.” “When one of these…
