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FBI, Justice Department Urged to Re-Open 1985 Pipe Bombing of Arab American Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil rights supporters are calling for the FBI and Justice Department to reopen the investigation into the 1985 killing of a prominent Palestinian American leader, Democracy Now reports. Alex Odeh was killed by a powerful pipe bomb placed at the offices of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination in Santa Ana, Calif., where he served…
Attorneys for Aurora Theater Shooting Suspect Question Police Handling of Case
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes are trying to convince a judge to restrict some evidence from being used at trial because of the police’s handling of the investigation, ABC 7 in Denver reported. One of the issues is why police continued to talk to Holmes after his attorney advised…
President Obama to Nominate Jeh C. Johnson As Next Homeland Security Secretary
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If President Obama gets his way, Jeh C. Johnson will be the next secretary of the Homeland Security Department, the New York Times reports. Obama plans to soon nominate Johnson, who worked on many of the administration’s national security policies while he was the Defense Department’s general counsel. Johnson, 56, would replace…
Convicted Felon Shows Off on Facebook with Guns, Leading to Arrests
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hollis Nunnery didn’t let the fact that he was a convicted felon get in the way of posting pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook, WoodTV.com reports. Nunnery also happened to be the focus of an FBI investigation into bank robberies. After spotting Nunnery holding a large handgun with a laster site,…
Justice Delayed? Four U.S. Security Contractors Charged in 2007 Baghdad Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four years after a judge dismissed the case, four former Blackwater security contractors were charged Thursday in the 2007 attack on Iraqi civilians in which 17 people were killed, Time reports. The men, who were hired to guard U.S. diplomats, are accused of using machine guns and grenades at a Baghdad Square…
FBI Honors Cleveland’s Deputy Police Chief for Helping Crack Murder Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba refused to give up on a cold case involving the murder of a 14-year-old girl. The chief even visited victim’s mother, Yvonne Pointer, assuring her that authorities weren’t throwing in the towel, Cleveland.com reports. Sure enough, the case broke earlier this year after re-testing old DNA…
Accused Serial Bank Robber Thanks FBI In Court
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An accused serial bank robber who led authorities on a two-hour manhunt took time out of his court appearance Wednesday to thank the FBI, the News-Democrat reports. “The FBI has been very nice to me,” Carl Frederick Kieffer told U.S. Magistrate Stephen Williams during an initial appearance on federal bank robbery charges….
Charleston NAACP Asks Justice Department to Probe Excessive Force Against Black Men
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charleston civil rights supporters are calling for an investigation into a “troubling and outrageous trend” lethal police force against black men, the Post and Courier reports. Don Scott, president of the city’s NAACP, said Saturday’s shooting of a black man is one of four police-involved shootings since March 2012. Scott said officers…