Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The ATF is protecting art in Detroit. Arsonists struck the world-renowned open-air exhibit – the Heidelberg Project – at least seven times since May 2, burning down entire homes that are used as installations. The ATF on Thursday announced it was offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — The Nigerian man known as the “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, hasn’t given up the fight to go free. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday heard arguments from his lawyer Travis Rossman, who wants his client’s guilty plea tossed. He wants him to undergo a…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. A note from Greg Stejskal: “Despite not having sold the screen rights & in an effort to make this story a Holiday classic, we’re running this story again. Happy Holidays!” By…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — It’s been about a decade since the “Detroit Sleeper Cell” case imploded and ended up being a big embarrassment to the Justice Department and the FBI. You might recall, shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, four men were charged in Detroit with operating a sleeper cell that was plotting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In the latest raid against public corruption in Detroit, the FBI descended on the home and business of a former Detroit Public Schools official, WXYZ reports. The FBI said Carolyn Darden was the district’s director of grants when she helped herself to millions of tax dollars. A federal affidavit accuses her and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Detroit’s FBI division has a new leader. Paul M. Abbate, who has a background in counterterrorism, will replace Robert Foley, who announced plans to step down in August after a year on the job. The appointment was first reported by ticklethewire.com and Deadline Detroit. Fox 2 reports that Abbate most recently was…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– Roy C. (Joe) Hayes was one of those U.S. Attorneys who took the job seriously, but seemed to enjoy what he did while keeping a pretty good sense of humor about him. I got to know Joe when I was a reporter at the Detroit News covering the…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Painting him as a bully, extortionist and violent criminal who hid assets, a Detroit federal judge on Friday sentenced Bobby Ferguson, the city contractor and good buddy of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, to 21 years. “Bobby Ferguson was the catalyst at the center of an historic and unprecedented…
