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…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The lead FBI agent in the recovery of evidence from the bomb site at the Boston Marathon is expected testify today in the jury trial of Dzhokha Tsarnaev. FBI Special Agent Sarah DeLair began collecting evidence just hours after the blasts at the crowded finishing line on April 15, 2013, she…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After an eight-day trial, a Boston federal jury Tuesday convicted a college friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, of making false statements to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Robel Phillipos, 21, of Cambridge, Mass., was found guilty of making false statements on April 20 and April 25 in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect. The Boston Globe reports that the fate of Robel Phillipos is now in the hands of a jury. In closing arguments, Phillipos’ attorney said the government failed to show that he “knowingly and intentionally”…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prosecutors are accusing the defense lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of posing as FBI employees to investigate their client’s background in Russia, the Boston Globe reports. “Let us be clear: At no time have members of the defense team misrepresented themselves or lied about their work,” Tsarnaev’s lawyers…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police are looking for two armed men who posed as FBI agents while knocking on a suburban Boston apartment Saturday night. The Boston Globe reports that assailants said they had a search warrant and pistol-whipped an occupant who opened the door in Waltham, Mass. The assailants fled the apartment after striking…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men disguised as police officers stole $500 million worth of artwork from a Boston museum in 1990. Now the FBI has confirmed recent sightings of the work that was taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.com reports. The art included work by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet. FBI Special Agent Geoff…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One year after twin pressure cooker bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon bombings, many questions remain. Why did federal authorities miss an opportunity to act on a warning from Russia that bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was becoming radicalized? How much of a role did his younger brother, Dzhokhar, play in attack? Would…
