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Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty in FBI Sting that Targeted Military Recruiting Center
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 22-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Baltimore to plotting to blow up an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Md., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore said. Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction…
Louisville ATF Agent Injured in Car Crash; Other Driver May Have Been Drinking
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com While on duty and driving in an official bureau car, an ATF agent in Louisville was sent to the hospital Thursday afternoon after a Cadillac hit a telephone pole, spun and struck the agent’s car. The injuries are not expected to be life-threatening, a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police told…
Meth User Shoots at Police Helicopter, Gets 46 Months
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Originally indicted by a federal grand jury for firing at an in-flight police helicopter, Michael P. McMichael, of Oklahoma City, was slapped with 46 months in prison for being a habitual methamphetamine user unlawfully in possession of a firearm, the FBI announced on Wednesday. The 19-year-old shot at the police helicopter…
Large Cocaine Package Found at UN Building
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com You never know where the next big shipment of cocaine may end up. DEA agents and New York City police are investigating a shipment of a reported $2 million worth of cocaine intercepted last week at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, reports FOX. Around 35 pounds of cocaine, stuffed…
Man Who Shot at N. Va. Military Installations Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 23-year-old man who caused a stir by shooting at military installations in Northern Virginia in late 2010, pleaded guilty Thursday in Alexandria, Va. fed court to damaging more than $100,000 in property and firearms violations. Yonathan Melaku, 23, of Alexandria, Va., was involved in five separate shootings at military installations…
Rep. Issa Ain’t Giving Up in Fast and Furious; Demands Assist. U.S. Atty Talk
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Like a pit bull, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) ain’t letting go, ain’t giving up easily in finding out more details about ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to “straw purchasers”, all with the hopes of tracing the weapons to the Mexican cartels. The latest: Issa,…
DEA Agents Seize 1,100 Lbs. of Marijuana in North Carolina
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Armed with a search warrant, the DEA agents and local police seized about 1,100 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $660,000, along with several hundred thousand dollars in cash, a small amount of cocaine and two automobiles in North Carolina, reports GoDanRiver.com Three arrests were made of the Mexican suspects who…
First Charges of Shepard/Byrd Act Convicted, Receive Prison Time for Assaulting a Developmentally Disabled Navajo
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two member of the Bloods street gang were sentenced in a US District Court in Santa Fe, N.M., for a hate crime against a developmentally disabled Navajo, the FBI said in a statement on Wednesday. Paul Beebe and Jesse Sanford of Farmington, N.M were convicted and sentenced on federal hate crime…