By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com A recent trip with a dozen friends to Malawi in southeastern Africa provided much food for thought about the meaning of the character of a nation. We were a group of well meaning but amateur voluntourists from a nation many consider to be the most advanced civilization in the world and…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com A recent trip with a dozen friends to Malawi in southeastern Africa provided much food for thought about the meaning of the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Lowry, the FBI agent suspected of tampering with evidence in drug cases, is accused of using heroin that was earmarked as evidence for a trial, the Washington Post reports. The accusations against Lowry are so serious that authorities are dismissing cases against convicted and accused drug dealers in Washington…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Silk Road, a notorious online drug supplier, has been busted again, The Verge reports. The FBI, Homeland Security and European law enforcement seized the replacement site. Authorities arrested suspected operator Blake Benthall, 26, in California on Wednesday. It appears Benthall slipped up when he used his own email address for a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Drug smugglers have tried all kinds of clever – and not so clever – ways to get their products across the Mexican border and into the U.S. On Tuesday morning, Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector seized nearly $100,000 worth of marijuana dropped from an ultralight aircraft Tuesday, AZ Family reports….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Three top officials in the Justice Department played a role in getting their relatives paid paid internships, the New York Daily News reports. Executive Office for Immigration Review Director Juan Osuna, Board of Immigration Appeals Chairman David Neal and Chief Immigration Judge Brian O’Leary each helped relatives get the jobs, according…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI went further than creating a bogus news site to capture a 15-year-old suspect accused of making bomb threats at a high school near Olympia, Washington. An FBI agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter in 2007 and asked the suspect to review a bogus AP article about threats directed at…
