By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy have penned a new biography on mobster James “Whitey” Bulger , which reveals some interesting tidbits about the one-time fugitive accused of killing 19 people. The book, “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt that Brought Him to Justice,” talks about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI wants to deliver Top Ten Fugitive Eric Toth something on his birthday: A Pair of handcuffs and a meal in prison. On its Facebook page today, it posted this: “Help us capture FBI Top Ten Fugitive Eric Toth, who turns 31 today. He is wanted for allegedly possessing child…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The state and justice departments have no intention of investigating complaints of human rights violations and other misconduct by DEA agents in Honduras, the Washington Times reports. At issue is the May 2012 deaths of four Honduran villagers during an anti-drug operation along the Carribean coast. Some lawmakers and human-rights groups have…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prince George County is trying to sweeten its deal to attract the FBI’s new headquarters, the Washington Post reports. A committee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is expected to vote Thursday on whether to offer the FBI 78 acres at the Greenbelt station to bolster a relocation deal. The Post…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The massive manhunt for a former Los Angeles Police officer ended Tuesday in spectacular fashion in the San Bernardino Mountains – a car chase, gunfight and blaze, the USA Today reports. Authorities are awaiting forensic tests to confirm the charred body found at the vacation cabin was Christopher Dorner, who went on a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Pittsburgh Police Department is under a cloud of suspicion after the FBI seized documents Tuesday from police headquarters, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard would only confirm that documents were taken FBI agents and declined to talk about specifics. Suspicion has followed police Chief Nate Harper since a former…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Depending on whom you believe, Matthew Aaron Llaneza was either bent on committing terrorism in the name of Allah or was psychotic and easily manipulated by the FBI, the Mercury News reports. The 28-year-old San Jose is accused of trying to detonate what turned out to be a phony bomb Friday in…
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — The FBI has a long, storied history of infiltrating and prosecuting the Outlaws Motorcycle Club (OMC) as an organized-crime gang, including some high-profile cases in recent years. On Jan. 31, a Baltimore man put himself squarely in the middle of one such probe in Philadelphia by allegedly…
