By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A veteran Boston police officer who lied to the FBI is resigning as part of a plea agreement that would prevent him from going to jail, the Boston Herald reports. David Michael Fitzgerald, 49, admitted making false statements to the FBI on April 27 while agents investigated a street-level drug dealer….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What happened in the final moments of Ibragim Todashev’s life has been the subject of intensive investigations and a lawsuit. Boston.com reports that new information suggests Todashev was “calm and respectful” when the FBI and Massachusetts State Police entered his apartment in Florida. By night’s end, Todashev, who was a friend…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not long before a 26-year-old terrorism suspect was fatally shot Tuesday during a scuffle with FBI agents and Boston police, he told a friend that he wanted to randomly kill police officers and bought three combat knives on Amazon.com, the Washington Post reports. A criminal complaint filed against Usaamah Abdullah Rahim…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Boston police said they have video that should end any questions about whether law enforcement used appropriate force when they fatally opened fire on a 26-year-old terrorism suspect in his neighborhood Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that Usaama Rahim lunged at a police officer and FBI agent with a military-style knife,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death, the Boston Herald reports. The bombing claimed four lives and seriously wounded a score of others. The verdict was announced Friday in Boston by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr.’s courtroom clerk Paul Lyness, the paper reported. Tsarnaev…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, a federal court jury has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing, the Washington Post reports. The same jury will now decide whether he spends the remainder of his life in prison or is executed under a federal death penalty statute. Tsarnaev stood with his head bowed…
Boston’s most notorious unsolved crime may finally have a resolution.
By The Boston Globe Editorial Board After Decades of frustration, the FBI ought to try opening its files on the Gardner Museum heist in hopes that fresh vision will help crack Boston’s most notorious unsolved mystery. The theft of 13 priceless works of art, including Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee,” 25 years ago…
