Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The relatives of James “Whitey” Bulger’s victims spoke out Wednesday during a pre-sentencing hearing for the notorious mobster, the Boston Globe reports. But no matter what the relatives said, Bulger stood impassively with his back to them. “You won’t even turn around and look at us?” said Patrick Callahan, shaking his head…
Howie Carr Boston Herald Whitey Bulger, you wanted to kill me, but I’m still alive. And you’re dead. You’re not going to last long in a real prison, you bully, you coward. I heard you’ve told some of the guards down at Plymouth you would have killed me for sure but you were concerned about…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It started with a bullet inside a woman’s hotel room. Ignacio Zamora Jr., a senior supervisor who oversees a dozen agents in the president’s detail, tried to force his way into the hotel room and retrieve the bullet, the Washington Post reports. After launching that investigation, authorities also discovered that Zamora…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican national said he was raped by cellmates in a Montana jail while he was waiting to be deported, the Great Falls Tribune reports. “I want people to know what happened to me, and I want the people responsible to be punished,” Audemio Orozco-Ramirez, 40, told the Tribune through an interpreter….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com From the FBI to shoes? Oregon’s top FBI official, Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler, is leaving the helm after two years, the Oregonian reports. “I am retiring at the end of this month to take a position in the private sector,” said Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jeh Johnson’s opposition to President Obama’s decision to unilaterally use warplanes to drop bombs on Libya in June 2011 may have paid off., the Los Angeles Times reports. Johnson was general council at the Defense Department at the time, and advised Obama to get Congressional approval. His advice has won him Republican…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Border Patrol agents have been sentenced to two years in prison after forcing suspected trafficking to eat marijuana and run around the Arizona desert, RT reports. The agents, Dario Castillo, 25, and Ramon Zuniga, 31, were convicted of violating the civil rights of four Mexican men who were in the U.S….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is using a proven technology in hopes of tracking down a dangerous child predator known as “John Doe 27,” ABC News reports. Agents employed sophisticated image analysis to develop a refined picture of the predator in hopes that someone in the public will recognize the suspect. “These types of individuals…
