By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Federal Judge Jack Camp is hoping to stay out of prison, hoping a judge considers his sentencing memorandum that focuses on his mental health and problems in life on March 11. In a memo filed in federal court in Atlanta on Friday, Camp’s attorney William Taylor of Washington writes that Camp…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents have been conducting raids in U.S. cities and targeting Mexican cartel members in response to last week’s murder of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico, the Associated Press reported. Another ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. was shot and wounded. “We are taking a stand and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at the Atlanta airport was charged with 13 others in a large scale drug operation in which authorities seized 700,000 tabs of ecstasy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Authorities say that agent Devon “Romey” Samuel, 45, of Stockbridge, Ga., was charged in three undercover…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Camp of Atlanta, one of three judges featured in a ticklethewire.com story on “Fed Judges Gone Wild”, pleaded guilty Friday in a case in which he is accused of buying drugs for a stripper he was having a relationship with, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Camp pleaded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Mark F. Giuliano becomes the new assistant director for the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters, replacing James W. McJunkin who will take over as head of the bureau’s Washington Field Office. “Mark’s experience and leadership have prepared him well to lead the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division during these important times,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Lester G. Davis of Atlanta, who developed an impressive record for capturing bank robbers in the 1950s while working in New Orleans, died Saturday at age 94, according to an obituary in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Lester’s career with the FBI spanned 32 years, starting in 1942. He…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atlanta cop Lucius T. Solomon got tripped up in an FBI sting and will likely head off to prison. The 31-year-old, now a former cop, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to corruption and drug charges. He could get up to life in prison at sentencing, which is…
