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Largest Child Porn Collection Ill. Judge, FBI Agent Have Ever Seen Calls for Max Sentence
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A man with a collection of child pornography twice as large as anything an FBI investigator had ever seen was handed the maximum 20-year sentence on Tuesday in federal court in Peoria, Ill. The size of the stash, and the 30 years Richard J. Jimenez spent collecting it, called for a…
93-Page FBI File on Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard Released; Allegations Include Violent Crimes
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It appears some detectives in New York have been paying attention to their hip hop. Newly released files on Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard reveal a thick FBI profile of the Staten Island, New York MC. ”The detectives have documented, in their case files, that the [Wu Tang Clan] is heavily…
15 Indicted in Major Detroit Drug Bust
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Feds have been busy in Detroit, where a major drug bust ended with 15 people indicted for peddling a “massive amount” of cocaine and marijuana across the metro Detroit area, reports the Detroit Free Press. All were charged with running the operation from 2008 to 2011, while three were also…
Fla. Cop Gets Three Years for Targeting, Stealing From Hispanic Drivers
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Racial profiling might seem lucrative, but the cost of doing business will eventually catch up. A Florida police officer who was arrested for stealing cash from Hispanics he pulled over was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, reports the Miami Herald. Mark Ott’s sentence comes eight months after a…
Penn. Man Threatens Life of FBI Agent
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Pennsylvania dentist had his home raided Friday night after being accused of threatening the life of an FBI agent, reports WPXI. Anthony Dinozzi lost his license to practice dentistry after being convicted on drug charges in Ohio in 2002, according to WPXI. The newer criminal complaint alleges that Dinozzi…
Minn. Woman Sentenced to 15 Years for Threats to Vice Pres. Biden and FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The U.S. Postal Service is grateful people can’t email everything. But this certainly wasn’t what it had in mind. A Minnesota woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday for mailing threats to Vice President Joe Biden, an FBI agent and others over the past two decades, reports the…
Islamic Extremist or an FBI-Created Extremist?
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal authorities have arrested an Islamic extremist, but Adam Martin at the Atlantic Wire is skeptical. Kosovo-born Sami Osmakac is being charged with plotting to bomb Tampa, Fla.-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office to “avenge wrongs done to Muslims,” according to the AP. But Martin is quite ready to pat the…
US Soldier Ditches the Army, Tried to Join Terror Group in Somalia
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Army soldier was charged Monday in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, the terrorist organization, the FBI said in a statement. Craig Benedict Baxam, 24, of Laurel, Maryland, was arrested on Friday, January 6, when he returned to his home state…