Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.come
An ATF agent accused of witness tampering was cleared of charges, WRAL reports.
U.S. District Judge James Fox dismissed the witness-tampering charges Tuesday against Raleigh, N.C. ATF agent Mike Fanelly, saying prosecutors failed to provide sufficient evidence.
Fanelly will retain his job.
A grand jury had charged that he interfered with two officers who were investigating reports of cocaine distribution last June and that he made a false statement about a woman who was arrested that he happened to be having an affair with.
