By Allan Lengel Prosecutors seem to be following the directive by D.C. U.S. attorney, Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News personality, to charge the most serious crimes possible in each case in federal court as part of President Trump’s crime initiative to flood the city with National Guards troops and FBI agents. Devlin Barrett of…
With international tensions mounting with the Ukraine-Russia war, charges like these seem to take on greater meaning.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF Special Agent in Charge Ashan M. Benedict started his career dealing with street violence in D.C. He eventually rose through the ranks and headed up the New York field office in 2016. But with the spike in homicides in the District, he’s back to head up the D.C. Field Office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com D.C. U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed of the Year for 2016. Phillips, who began working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. in 1994, was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Attorney post in Washington in October 2015. From 2011 to 2015, he served…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael Gavin, who recently served as section chief of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division’s National Covert Operations Section, has been named special agent in charge of the Memphis Division, the FBI announced Tuesday. He will assume the new post in mid-August. Gavin began his FBI career in 1995 and was first…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s certainly not the first time a federal agent in Washington has had a gun stolen from a car. Still, at this juncture, certainly the Secret Service would prefer to avoid any bad publicity. Unfortunately, this sort of thing happens. CNN reports that a Secret Service agent’s gun, badge, radio, handcuffs and…
By Jonathan O’Connell Washington Post WASHINGTON — Beneath the headquarters of America’s premier crime-fighting organization, one of the parking ramps has been condemned because corroded pieces of the ceiling were falling on cars. Netting hangs on the Ninth Street facade to prevent broken concrete from hitting passersby 160 feet down on the sidewalk below. During a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Washington, like a lot of other major cities, has had to deal with the plague of synthetic drugs for years. But the city has been slow to respond, writes Jeffrey Anderson in the D.C. City Paper. Anderson writes about authorities charging Nebiyu Jamal Fanta, who worked at the Benning Market & Dollar Plus…
