By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — In 2011, Kent Kleinschmidt, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, headed an enforcement group in the Detroit office that was investigating ties between a local drug organization and the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico led by the notorious Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The case eventually lead to some serious…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — At age 14, in the 1980s, Richard Wershe Jr., aka “White Boy Rick,” became an informant for the Detroit FBI in the war on drugs. In time, he was doing undercover buys for the FBI and Detroit Police. Eventually he started selling dope on his own. At 17 he…
Timothy Slater, special agent in charge of the Criminal/Cyber Division at the Washington D.C. Field Office, has been appointed to take over the FBI’s Detroit Division, where he began his career with the bureau in 1999.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — David Gelios, the head of the Detroit FBI since late 2015, who oversaw a number of major investigations involving public corruption in Macomb County and Detroit, is retiring to take a job with the Roger Penske organization, Roop Raj of Fox 2 reports. Gelios will reach the FBI’s mandatory retirement age…
When the FBI raided a rundown warehouse in Detroit in December 2013, they made grisly discoveries at what turned out to be a black-market body parts business.
The FBI is investigating a couple of strangers who were caught engaging in a sex act while in their seats on Delta Lunes flight from Los Angeles to Detroit.
ICE agents arrested dozens of Chaldeans in metro Detroit on Sunday, leading to a standoff with protesters.
Federal authorities busted an alleged cockfighting and gambling ring in southwest Detroit over the weekend, detaining about 50 undocumented immigrants.
