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Hawaii Man Gets 18 Month in Prison for Drunk Dialing FBI About Nonexistent Hijacking
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Consider this a lesson in drunk dialing. A Hawaii man was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday for drunkenly calling the FBI and falsely reporting an airplane hijacking, the Associated Press reports. Timothy David Hershman blamed the incident on alcoholism and anger. “I screwed up really big time, your honor,” he…
Justice Department Describes Horrifying Abuses of Female Inmates at Alabama Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When federal officials began investigating claims of sexual abuse at an Alabama prison for women, they never imagined what they’d find inside. ABC News reports that the environment was so obscene and toxic that the nearly 900 woman incarcerated at Tutwiler Prison “universally fear for their safety,” the Justice Department found. How bad…
Drunk Driver Crashes into Border Patrol Van, Tries to Get Away
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Roberto Carlos Perez’s first mistake was getting behind the wheel drunk. But his second mistake was maybe more perplexing – hitting a van with five Border Patrol agents inside and deciding to flee, the El Paso Times reports. Perez struck the van and drove off in his 1995 Chevrolet Corsica in El…
FBI Agents Questioning Aides to Gov. Chris Christie Over Hurricane Sandy
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is beginning to investigate whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie threatened to pull the plug on Hurricane Sandy relief money if a city mayor failed to support a billion-dollar development, NBC News reports. Agents are questioning witnesses and asking them to preserve any records related to the accusations made by…
Veteran Documentary Filmmaker Joe Berlinger Talks About his Newest Movie, “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
The film, which premiered recently at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the life of the crime boss and reflects on what would have happened if the FBI didn’t use Bulger as an informant.
Florida Republican Gets Quick Visit From Secret Service After Tweet About Hanging Obama
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida Republican discovered a quick way to get a visit from the Secret Service. The Daily Caller reports that an African American candidate for state assembly tweeted Tuesday that he believes President Obama should be arrested and hanged. But the candidate, Joshua Black, didn’t stop there. He posted this on Facebook:…
FBI Raids Arizona Business That Sells Bodies, Body Parts to Research Facilities
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI raided a business in Arizona that buys cadavers and body parts for a human tissue bank, AZFamily.com reports. Federal and state authorities wearing masks hauled away boxes from Biological Resource Center on Monday. The business describes itself as a facility that “connects those who wish to donate their body to…
Man Wearing Google Glass Faces Hour-Long Interrogation at Ohio Movie Theater
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Ohio man was interrogated for an hour after he was spotted wearing Goggle Glass at a movie theater. The Business Insider reports that the glasses caused alarm at the AMC theater, where employees believed he was illegally taping the film. The man, who has not been identified, tried telling authorities that…