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Woman Used Superglue to Repair Son’s Genitals After Trying to Pull them Off
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a civilian at a military base for nearly tearing off her son’s penis and testicles and then using superglue to try fix the injuries, the San Antonio Express-News reports. Jennifer Marie Vargas, 34, was charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The father, who is enlisted in the…
Is FBI Racially Profiling? ACLU Loses Court Battle to Find Out
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI does not have to publicly release records on its use of ethnic and racial data, the Star-Ledger reports. The ACLU sued for the records, worried that FBI guidelines foe 2008 were encouraging racial profiling. The guidelines were revised to allow agents to engage in “limited” racial and ethnic profiling, the…
Surviving Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect May Argue Brother Was Influence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Should Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be given the death penalty? Legal experts said his lawyers may try to avoid the death penalty by arguing their client was under the influence of his brother, who recently was implicated in a past triple murder, Time reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorneys are trying to…
Another Former Detroit Public Official Is Accused of Stealing Millions from Taxpayers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In the latest raid against public corruption in Detroit, the FBI descended on the home and business of a former Detroit Public Schools official, WXYZ reports. The FBI said Carolyn Darden was the district’s director of grants when she helped herself to millions of tax dollars. A federal affidavit accuses her and…
FBI Director Comey Names Bureau’s New National Security Chief
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI officially named Andrew McCabe to its top national security post. The long-time terrorism investigator was promoted to assistant director of the National Security Branch, which oversees terrorism-related intelligence, the FBI announced. McCabe, who began his career in 1996 with the bureau’s organized crime squad in New York, was the…
Across the Country, the Federal Designer-Drug Crackdown Takes Prisoners, Cash, and a Legal Backlash
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE –– Dev Bahadur Hamal worked behind the counter of the Tobacco Stop in Bel Air, one of those ubiquitous shops that sell legal smokables and accessories for illegal ones, like bongs, hookahs, rolling papers, pot grinders, and glass pipes. On Sept. 22, 2011, a customer stepped up to the…
Slain Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Implicated in Triple Murder
Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com Before Tamerlan Tsarnaez was accused of planting bombs at the finishing line at the Boston Marathon, the slain suspect participated in a triple murder in a nearby town, his friend told investigators, Reuters reports. The newly filed court records said Ibragim Todashev told investigators that Tsarnaez took part in a triple stabbing….
Government Must Get Warrant for GPS for Car, Appeals Court Rules
By Andrea Peterson Washington Post WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday that the government must obtain a warrant to attach a GPS unit to a car. The case involved alleged pharmacy burglaries in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland: the authorities suspected a trio of brothers and slapped a magnetic GPS unit…