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Mexican Drug Smugglers Use Catapult to Fling Pot into U.S.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Smugglers never seem to run out of ways to get drugs into the U.S. The latest: U.S. authorities tipped off Mexicans officials that some smugglers were using a catapult to launch marijuana packages from Mexico into the U.S. The Associated Press reported that National Guard troops in Arizona spotted the catapult…
Ex-Fed Prosecutor Named U.S. Magistrate in Baltimore
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Baltimore federal prosecutor Stephanie A. Gallagher has been named a U.S. District Magistrate Judge in Baltimore. Gallagher, 38, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Baltimore office for seven years before forming the firm Levin & Gallagher in Baltimore. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office she investigated and prosecuted a…
Disgraced Ex-Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick Will Have Some Darn Interesting Reading While in Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Detroit’s disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who sits behind bars at a federal prison in Michigan, should have some interesting reading to pass the time. A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to give him 24 DVDs containing evidence he can review to prep for his case in which he’s accused of…
Bye Bye Security Color Codes and the Constant State of Orange
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Column: The Las Vegas Mob Experience — A Social Disgrace
William Donati is an English professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and author of the recently-released book: “Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss” By William Donati For ticklethewire.com LAS VEGAS — The debut of the Las Vegas Mob Experience — a new museum housed in the legendary Tropicana…
Before Az. Shooting Loughner Looked at Websites on Assassinations and Lethal Injections
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More is spilling out about Arizona shooter Jared Loughner in the weeks before he went on a shooting spree that would stun the country. The Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz reports that weeks and days before the shooting, Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer “in what investigators believe was an effort…
FBI Arrests Last Fugitive — “Joe Dogs” — in Historic Mob Bust
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The last of the remaining fugitives in the historical mob take down last week surrendered on Wednesday to the FBI in New York, authorities said. Joseph “Joe Dogs” Lombardi, a “made” Gambino crime family soldier, who faces extortion charges, was the last fugitive of the 127 indicted last week in what…
Az. Feds Bust Gun Runners to Mexico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Arizona, which is locked in an endless battle to keep guns from going into Mexico, comes the latest. Authorities on Tuesday announced indictments in five cases resulting in charges against 34 people accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally running firearms from the United States to Mexico. Authorities…