By Steve Neavling A man charged in connection with a shooting that claimed the life of a DEA agent at a Tucson Amtrak Station in October 2021 was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison, the Justice Department announced Friday. Devonte Okeith Mathis, 24, tried to smuggle drugs aboard an Amtrak train before a…
A man accused of being involved in the fatal shooting of a DEA agent at the Tucson Amtrak Station in October 2021 was never charged in connection with the murder.
By Steve Neavling The 26-year-old man who opened fire inside an Amtrak train and killed a DEA agent in Arizona and wounded a city police officer was facing multiple criminal charges in California. Darrion Taylor, who died in the shootout, was out of jail on bond in late December, Tucson.com reports. Taylor had been charged…
By Steve Neavling DEA Special Agent Michael Garbo, who was shot and killed by an Amtrak train passenger in Tucson, Ariz., will be remembered with a public funeral this morning. Garbo, a 16-year veteran of the DEA, was killed Monday while doing a routine inspection for illegal drugs and guns on the train, and two…
The National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the scene of a fatal passenger train derailment that occurred Saturday in Montana.
An Amtrak was paid more than $850,000 to act as an informant for the DEA over the past 20 years, but none of the information that was received was new to the federal agency.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI found no evidence to suggest that gunfire played a role in the deadly Amtrak crash after examining a windshield with a suspicious indentation, ABC News reports. “The FBI has completed its examination of the windshield of the Amtrak #188 locomotive and has found no evidence of damage that could…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been tapped to investigate a suspicious mark on the windshield of the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and killed eight people and injured more than 200 people, CNN reports. The NTSB is hoping agents can help determine whether an indentation on the windshield of the derailed train…
