By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops. The Minneapolis FBI on Friday apologized for saying that two homicide victims were members of gangs. “Donald E. Oswald, Special Agent in Charge of the Minneapolis FBI office, today regrets to announce that the FBI made an error in a press release that was released yesterday regarding the arrest of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Salt Lake City FBI is going green. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) broke ground on Thursday for a new green-certified, four-story FBI building at 5425 West Amelia Earhart Drive in Salt Lake City, the FBI said. The building will be made of at least 30 percent recycled content. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — One of the reasons David Simons’ critically acclaimed HBO show “The Wire” was so realistic was because it had folks like Felicia “Snoop” Pearson — who murdered someone in real life– playing the role of a tom-boy, drug assassin. On Thursday, Pearson –who according to the Washington Post’s Reliable…
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — Ronald Eugene Brown was a natural target for Baltimore narcotics investigators. The 6-foot-6-inch, 240-pound man, nicknamed “Truck,” had already served many years in prison for 1990s drug-dealing and robbery convictions, and his rehabilitation after getting out was, well, dubious. The 44-year-old had lost his low-paying job as…
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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In response to a string of FBI stings around the country involving terrorist suspects, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Wednesday defended the tactic, calling it “absolutely essential” to public safety, according to the Associated Press. “We have been tremendously successful in thwarting attacks,” Mueller said at a news conference…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 21-year-old Baltimore man busted in an FBI sting on charges of trying to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., , was aware of the FBI sting in Portland in November involving a suspected terrorist, but decided to move forward with his plan anyways, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Two top executives of a California entertainment company and a DJ who spun records at actor Eddie Murphy’s wedding in 2008 were among 14 people indicted Tuesday for their alleged role in a Hollywood-based drug ring that shipped hundreds of pounds of cocaine on chartered jets from Los Angeles…
