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Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty in FBI Sting that Targeted Military Recruiting Center
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 22-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Baltimore to plotting to blow up an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Md., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said. Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction…
Meth User Shoots at Police Helicopter, Gets 46 Months
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Originally indicted by a federal grand jury for firing at an in-flight police helicopter, Michael P. McMichael, of Oklahoma City, was slapped with 46 months in prison for being a habitual methamphetamine user unlawfully in possession of a firearm, the FBI announced on Wednesday. The 19-year-old shot at the police helicopter…
Large Cocaine Package Found at UN Building
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com You never know where the next big shipment of cocaine may end up. DEA agents and New York City police are investigating a shipment of a reported $2 million worth of cocaine intercepted last week at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, reports FOX. Around 35 pounds of cocaine, stuffed…
Man Who Shot at N. Va. Military Installations Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 23-year-old man who caused a stir by shooting at military installations in Northern Virginia in late 2010, pleaded guilty Thursday in Alexandria, Va. fed court to damaging more than $100,000 in property and firearms violations. Yonathan Melaku, 23, of Alexandria, Va., was involved in five separate shootings at military installations…
First Charges of Shepard/Byrd Act Convicted, Receive Prison Time for Assaulting a Developmentally Disabled Navajo
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two member of the Bloods street gang were sentenced in a US District Court in Santa Fe, N.M., for a hate crime against a developmentally disabled Navajo, the FBI said in a statement on Wednesday. Paul Beebe and Jesse Sanford of Farmington, N.M were convicted and sentenced on federal hate crime…
FBI Looking for Ways to Better Monitor Social Media
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It is no secret that social networks provide riches of info available to the public. And the FBI is looking for ways to cash in on that and better monitor info on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, reports the New Scientist. A document released on January 19 shows the bureau…
New Home For Phoenix FBI Opens
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Phoenix FBI has a new home. A 210,202-square-foot building on N. Seventh Street officially opened Wednesday, the Phoenix Business Journal reported. It was built by Ryan Cos., a Minneapolis-based company. The paper reported that the building consolidates four previous Phoenix FBI locations. “With more than double the previous space, the…
Guilty Verdicts Returned for Mexican Cartel Affiliates
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Things did not go the way Gerardo Castillo-Chavez and Armado Garcia had hoped in Laredo, Texas, on Wednesday. Both men saw guilty verdicts returned on all charges against them, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced. Castillo-Chavez, a 25-year-old from Tamaulipas, Mexico, was convicted of “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled…