By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former college student imprisoned since a jury convicted him of eco-terrorism in 2007 was freed Thursday after it was discovered the FBI and prosecutors withheld thousands of pages of evidence that could have been used for his defense, the Sacramento Bee reports. Federal prosecutors realized they had little choice but…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is beginning to help investigate the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico, even as evidence recently surfaced that the country’s government may have been involved in rounding up the young people, NBC News reports. The students, who were training to be teachers, vanished on Sept. 26 after protesting…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An internal investigation found widespread mishandling of FBI evidence in every region of the country, the New York Times reports. The highly critical report found that the FBI’s evidence collection and retention system is beset by errors, either through mishandling, mislabeling or losing evidence. The report also found that the FBI…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Houston-area investigators were working on an embezzlement case when authorities said the men helped themselves to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare comic, the Associated Press reports. Dustin Deutsch, 41, and Lonnie Blevins, 39, are accused of stealing the vintage comics from an evidence storage unit in 2012…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Lowry, the FBI agent suspected of tampering with evidence in drug cases, is accused of using heroin that was earmarked as evidence for a trial, the Washington Post reports. The accusations against Lowry are so serious that authorities are dismissing cases against convicted and accused drug dealers in Washington…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent accused of tampering with evidence has prompted federal prosecutors to begin the process of dismissing indictments against 28 defendants, the Washington Post reports. Half of the defendants were already serving sentences. Many of the defendants will be in U.S. District Court on Friday for a hearing. The U.S….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The brutal killing of five women in the San Francisco Bay Area beginning in 1976 became known as the “Gypsy Hill Murders.” Now the FBI has a person of interest in the unsolved murders because of a cigarette butt recovered from an unrelated crime scene, the New York Daily News reports….
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The evidence continues to mount of the dangerous health risks of today’s potent forms of marijuana, especially to segments of the population such as juveniles and young adults. But the medical evidence seems to be having little effect in view of a combination of denial, lack of political will, and ignorance…
