Detroit
Mich. Sen. Office Receives Letter with White Powder
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI announced on Monday that US Senator Carl Levin’s downtown Detroit office was evacuated after an employee came across a letter filled with a “suspicious white powder,” reports the Detroit News. The powder was later determined to be harmless. Levin’s office, located in the McNamara Federal Building, has since been…
FBI Seizes Property in Detroit-Area Operation Targeting Public Schools
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Add a new Jaguar sports car and over $34,000 to the coffers of FBI in Detroit. Those profits were seized during an ongoing investigation of the cash-strapped town of Pontiac, Mich., just north of Detroit, reports the Detroit News. The Jaguar was once Jumanne Sledge’s, a former Pontiac schools superintendent who…
Feds Pile on Another Charge on Detroit’s Ex-Hip Hop Mayor Kilpatrick
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The feds in the Motown just keep digging a deeper and deeper hole for Kwame Kilpatrick, the ex-mayor Detroit who was once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor.” The Detroit Free Press reports that Kilpatrick and longtime friend Bobby Ferguson were charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment with extortion involving…
Detroit Industrial Building Busted for Housing Pot Growers
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Known in recent years for the young artists that have taken over abandoned parts of the hulking structure, Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center was raided at 10 a.m. on Friday as a part of a federal investigation into illegal marijuana production, the Detroit News reports. Four people were arrested at the building…
FBI: Lions Fan Threatened to Blow Up Building After Team Fell Behind
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s never been easy to be a Detroit Lions fan. This fact was on hand at the Lions Jan. 7 playoff loss to the New Orleans Saints, where a fan threatened to blow up the team’s home stadium, the Superdome, reports the Detroit News. Shawn Payton, of Jackson, Mich, bomb threats…
FBI’s Kids Page: Just Another Example of FBI Outdoing Other Agencies in the Public Relations Game
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I remember years ago sitting at a banquet table at a retirement party for a U.S. Marshal in Detroit when the head of U.S. Customs in Detroit started talking about his school-aged son. With some amusement, and a perhaps a drop of disappointment, he recounted how his son told people his…
Column: FBI’s Kids Page: Just Another Example of FBI Outdoing Other Agencies in the Public Relations Game
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I remember years ago sitting at a banquet table at a retirement party for a U.S. Marshal in Detroit when the head of U.S. Customs in Detroit started talking about his school-aged son. With some amusement, and a perhaps a drop of disappointment, he recounted how his son told people his…