By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– Two Detroit cops are accused of stealing drugs, money and property during warrantless raids and bogus arrests during a four-year crime spree that ended with their suspension and the disbandment of the city’s narcotics unit. The indictment, which was unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court, alleges that Lt. David Hansberry and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Louisville man is accused of threatening to blow up an unidentified building and has been arrested, the FBI announced. Agents arrested Robert Paul Cardwell, 30, while working with the FBI’s Detroit Division. The FBI released the following statement: SAC Howard S. Marshall announced today the arrest of Robert Paul Cardwell…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — The former acting boss of the Detroit mob, Anthony (Tony Z) Zerilli, who triggered a massive FBI dig in northern Oakland County in 2013 in search of James R. Hoffa, died several days ago of natural causes in the Ft. Lauderdale area. He was 87. Scott Burnstein, a…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — U.S. District Judge Terrence Berg could be a spokesman for having a good attitude about Detroit despite being the victim of a shooting outside his home in city’s University District earlier this month during an attempted robbery. “Overall, I have such a positive feeling about Detroit and where…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Detroit’s popular Corktown business district continues to have problems with car thefts and break-ins. The latest: Two unmarked cars belonging to federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security were broken into Wednesday night at Corktown as agents were dining at the new Batch Brewery at 1400 Porter St.,…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Berg, a former federal prosecutor and former acting U.S. Attorney, was shot and wounded Thursday night on Detroit’s northwest side. George Hunter of the Detroit News reports that it was an attempted robbery. He was shot in the leg outside his home in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The FBI has been asked to investigate the assault of two men in suburban Detroit who were stabbed after saying they weren’t Muslim, The Washington Times reports. Terrence Lavaron Thomas, a Muslim, was charged Tuesday with unlawful intent and possession of a controlled substance following the stabbing at a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suburban Detroit man with Asperger’s syndrome faces up to five years in prison after the FBI said he threatened on Facebook to behead a New York police officer who placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a fatal chokehold, the Detroit News reports. Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles also is accused…
