By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is supporting the family of a girl who was raped after a teacher told her to act as bait to catch a suspected sexual predator at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Ala. The Daily Mail reports that the school had failed to discipline the suspected predator because he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge gave what former ATF agent Jay Dobyns seemed to want most: Vindication. The Arizona Republic writes that U.S. Federal Claims Judge Francis M. Allegra of D.C. ruled in a lawsuit filed by Dobyns that ATF failed to properly respond to death threats against him after he infiltrated the…
The following was written after ex-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns’ won his lawsuit against ATF. A federal judge awarded him $173,000 and lambasted ATF. Dobyns, who had gone undercover with the Hells Angels, claimed that the department didn’t do enough to protect his life after getting death threats and having his house catch on fire. The…
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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Victor Castillo lived a quiet life as a maintenance man for an apartment building in Wilmington. Turns out, Castillo’s real name is Ignacio Constantino, and he was wanted for first-degree murder in Tennessee for 13 years, the USA Today reports. The FBI, along with local police and the U.S. Marshals Service,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s newest addition to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is Eric Matthew Frein, who is the lone suspect in the delay ambush of two Pennsylvania state troopers, the Huffington Post reports. The FBI said it’s not messing around. “When law enforcement officers are violently targeted, we take it seriously…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charles McGinty, a retired FBI agent with an impressive resume, died Thursday of unknown causes, NOLA.com reports. He was 67. McGinty was supervisor of a public corruption squad in the FBI’s New Orleans office when he retired in 2004. After retiring, McGinty became a security director for Fidelity Homstead Savings Bank,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s attempt to maintain a criminal conviction against retired baseball slugger Barry Bonds is a swing and miss, several U.S. appeals court judges ruled. Reuters reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had serious doubts that Bonds’ testimony about steroids amounted to a crime. “I find your reading…
