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…
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Dr. Farid Fata/ photo from his website. By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Medicare fraud is pervasive in Detroit and elsewhere in the country. The U.S. Attorney’s Office here is constantly prosecuting cases, some involving some very big amounts of money. But no case in recent times has garnered more attention in Detroit than…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a body donor program in Portland following similar probes in Detroit and Arizona. Oregonlive.com reports that the FBI launched an investigation into Legacy Health. But authorities are tightlipped about the probe of Legacy Health. “Other than confirming that there is an FBI investigation into the Legacy Body…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James P. Mallon Jr., a retired FBI special agent who helped crack down on organized crime, died after a battle with cancer on Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Mallon was working in Detroit when the FBI tapped him to work in the Organized Crime program in Atlantic City, where he shined. Mallon…
Judge Avern Cohn (Photo by Harold White) By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn’s second-floor courtroom in downtown Detroit is normally a sobering place where drama unfolds and lawyers do battle. But on Wednesday, all was different. There was plenty joy in the air. Lawyers and judges, friends and family,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — As we thought would be the case, the PBS show Tuesday night on Jimmy Hoffa — “Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?” — didn’t crack the case as the pre-show hype suggested it might. And it certainly didn’t leave you feeling as if you knew what really happened to the Teamster boss….
