By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The real life plot of reality TV star Deelishis seems more dramatic than that on television. The African-American news website NewsOne points out that Chandra Davis, the star of reality show “Flava of Love,” is married to Orlando Gordon, one of the men picked up in a major drug bust in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Feds have been busy in Detroit, where a major drug bust ended with 15 people indicted for peddling a “massive amount” of cocaine and marijuana across the metro Detroit area, reports the Detroit Free Press. All were charged with running the operation from 2008 to 2011, while three were also…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber” who tried to ignite a bomb in his underwear on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009, wants a new — preferably Muslim stand-by lawyer — for his upcoming sentencing on Jan. 19, the Detroit Free Press reports. Fed prosecutors are opposed. “Because…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — So much for above the board negotiations. Two ex-United Auto Workers officials were sentenced to prison Tuesday in federal court in Detroit for conspiring to extort General Motors during a strike in 1997 at the Pontiac Truck Plant. Donny Douglas, 70, of Holly, Mich., a former UAW International Servicing…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Funding teen suicide prevention efforts is a laudable act, no doubt. But that all depends, of course, on whether the funding is actually being used for that purpose. In Detroit, FBI agents are investigating allegations that a fundraiser for Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, who was investigated earlier this year on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — At this point it would be hard to tarnish the reputation of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But the feds heaped on some more serious allegations to his already pending public corruption charges. The Detroit News reports that new court filings in fed court in Detroit allege that Kilpatrick took a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s tough to come by a buck in Metro-Detroit these days. Still, Jeffrey Hawkins, a 46-year-old former fire chief for Pontiac, Mich.–a city at the northern end of Detroit’s metropolitan area–maintains that he did not ignore fire violations in exchange for cash. Hawkins plead not guilty on Tuesday after turning himself…
