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Justice Department Opts Not to Appeal 37-Year-Sentence of Al-Qaida-Trained Terrorist
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the millennium will retain his 37-year sentence after the Justice Department opted not to appeal the punishment, the Associated Press reports. The Justice Department had called for the death penalty, but said it’s satisfied because Ahmed Ressam will…
Black Friday Gun Sales Are So Popular They Crash the FBI’s Background Check System
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Record gun sales on Black Friday this year caused the FBI’s background check system to crash twice, ABC News reports. The FBI checked 154,873 backgrounds, a 20% spike over last year. “The call centers experienced two short outages – one of 14 minutes and one of 18 minutes,” FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer…
FBI Documents: Ex-Boston Mayor Kevin White Was Targeted for Payoff Schemes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Recently uncovered FBI files on former Boston Mayor Kevin White show his administration was the target of a federal corruption probe in the 1970s, the Boston Globe reports. Among the claims, which never led to charges, were that White pressured businesses to donate money in exchange for work in the city. The…
DEA Agents Find Crack-Smoking Doctor in Filthy House
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DEA agents are used to low-life criminals. But during a raid this week in a New York house riddled with needles and crack, agents found Dr. Daniel Gillick, a 62-year-old emergency room doctor, lighting up a crack pipe with a young female companion, Buffalo News reports. Gillick’s status as a doctor prompted…
New boss Sergio Bucher says he wants shopping in Debenhams to
Merry melange: LuxuriaRashmi Tank’s Luxuria has an aesthetic mix of ethnic apparels to trendy canada-goosejacketsale, ‘brunch’ special western wear. The haunt of the well heeled from Ahmedabad and Vadodara, and popular even with visitors from Mumbai, this store is known for customising apparels for women. In house designers Chitra Mahavir, Urja Desai and Ritu Gupta…
State AG: Border Patrol Agents Used Justified Deadly Force in Maine Home Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two border patrol agents who opened fire inside a Maine home while responding to a domestic disturbance in June were justified in using deadly force, the state Attorney General’s office said Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reports. Investigators said the agents, James Tierney and Chris Demanski, returned fire after the home’s 75-year-old…
FBI Probes Dozens of Bomb Threats that Shut Down Buildings in 30 Tennessee Counties
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a rash of telephone bomb threats to buildings in 30 counties in Tennessee, Reuters reports. Public facilities such as courthouses were shut down Tuesday following the threats. “There were no devices found,” Dayla Qualls, spokeswoman for the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security, told Reuters. Among the…
FBI Busts Menacing Trio in Loan-Sharking Ring in Brooklyn
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An unlikely alliance between gangsters and the mafia was discovered by the FBI during an investigation of a loan-sharking ring, the New York Post reports. The newspaper wrote that the Brooklyn-based FBI arrested purported Gambino crime family member James Ferrara, alleged Westies gang member Daniel Hanley and reputed Demon Knights motorcycle gangster…