By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ron Bergrin bragged in an e-mail that he could easily destroy an FBI agent for her role in getting his cousin convicted and then sentenced for racketeering and homicide, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. “She thinks she’s living in a safe place, a place where nobody can find out where she lives…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An internal investigation found widespread mishandling of FBI evidence in every region of the country, the New York Times reports. The highly critical report found that the FBI’s evidence collection and retention system is beset by errors, either through mishandling, mislabeling or losing evidence. The report also found that the FBI…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Three Columbian nationals who participated in the kidnapping and murder of DEA Special Agent James “Terry” Watson in Bogota, Columbia, on June 20, 2013, were sentenced to 20 to 27 years. The defendants had previously entered guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to kidnap and aiding and abetting the murder of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent accused of fatally shooting a 27-year-old man following an argument last month pleaded not guilty Wednesday, CBSLA.com reports. John Richard Demery, 40, is charged in the killing of Adam Thomas in an early morning dispute. Demery was off-duty at the time. Prosecutors said the confrontation may have…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents did not commit “outrageous” misconduct by luring suspects into a robbery of a fictitious drug house, a federal appellate panel ruled Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The decision reverses a district court judge’s earlier ruling that the suspects’ due process rights were violated when the ATF enticed them…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An American trucker who refused to answer questions from the Border Patrol was yanked out of his truck by agents after they smashed his window as a camera rolled, the Houston Chronicle reports. The truck driver was arrested at a checkpoint near Falfurrias in Texas, about 60 miles north of the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of ramming his truck into a car carrying two FBI agents pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports. Yatnier Gonzalez, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a federal officer. He will be sentenced on March 12. The two agents are…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. immigration officer who accepted bribes of cash and egg rolls from people seeking citizenship and green cards was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison last week, Fox News reports. Mai Nhu Nguyen, 48, an officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Santa Ana, Calif., pleaded guilty to…
