By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Creativity is one thing that never seems to be lacking when it comes to housing fraud, a pervasive problem. The latest: Five men have been charged in an FBI probe into bid rigging on foreclosed homes at public auction in northern California, a local ABC affiliate reported on Tuesday. A federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy surrounding the decision by the Boston Globe to publish the name of the woman who tipped off the FBI as to the whereabouts of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, continued on Wednesday. The FBI in Boston posted a statement on its website denying it played any role in the publication…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops. The oops began when the FBI in San Diego notified the Springfield, Or. cops that a man in that community had purchased a suicide kit from a 91-year-old retired science teacher in California. The FBI had raided the California woman’s home four months ago and then started — although belatedly…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents moved into a local police station in Mountain View, Calif. in January of last year and reopened a 6-year-old cold case, reports Mountain View Patch. This week, three arrests were made in the case, a fatal drive-by shooting of a 17-year-old. “The FBI resources and technology were very valuable…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A dying mother’s request helped the FBI nab her her son, who had been on the lam for 36 years. He had escaped from prison while serving life for a deadly San Francisco robbery. The Sacramento FBI Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force on Friday arrested William Walter Asher III, 66,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A five mile stretch along I-8 in California in the San Diego area will have signs honoring Robert Rosas Jr., a popular border patrol agent who was killed in an ambush two years ago, the San Diego Union Tribune reported. A ceremony to unveil the signs is set for the fall,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s not the crime of the century. Nonetheless, it’s prison time for Michael Plank, 42, of Lomita, Calif., who was sentenced Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to 15 months behind bars for smuggling 15 lizards from Australia into the United States. Essentially, he got one month in prison for every…
