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…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Colombian drug lord Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, designated by the Justice Department as one of “the world’s most significant drug kingpins”, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York to 30 years in prison, authorities announced. Gonzalez Uribe, 44, was arrested in 2009 in the Dominican Republic and pleaded guilty…
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 More signs of the Mexican drug cartels reaching into the U.S.: The Washington Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security is warning Arizona authorities that Mexican drug gangs have sent assassins or “sicarios” into the state to kill bandits who are ambushing and stealing loads of cocaine, marijuana and heroin,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not a good thing for the judiciary. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr, 67, of Georgia was arrested Friday night near Sandy Springs, Ga., after he bought $160 worth of cocaine and Roxycodone, a narcotic pain killer, from an undercover agent. The paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the Mexican-U.S. drug war, money still corrupts on both sides of the border. The latest: A U.S. border inspector was charged Friday with taking more than $50,000 to let drug-filled vehicles from Mexico pass through his lane, the Associated Press reported. Authorities charged that Oscar Osbaldo Ortiz Martinez,30, a Customs…
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…
