Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents swept across Indiana on Wednesday in search of 43 members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club to face charges that remain sealed, The Indianapolis Star reports. Calling it the largest federal bust of alleged gang activity in Indiana, a task force of hundreds of agents helped arrest dozens of bikers. Earlier…
By Allan Lengel and Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a damning report that confirms what many suspected, an independent investigation, led by ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh found that top leaders at Pennsylvania State University, including legendary football coach Joe Paterno, tried covering up Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children for 14 years. The findings of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prosecutors plan to release FBI interviews Thursday in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The interviews are expected to shed more light on the man who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin while he was walking home from a store in Sanford, Florida on Feb. 26. The FBI, which…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Justice Department are launching an unprecedented review of forensic evidence in thousands of criminal cases to ensure no one was wrongly convicted since at least 1985, the Washington Post reports. The sweeping review includes rape, murder and robbery cases conducted by all FBI Laboratory hair and fiber examiners, people…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man accused of staging a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol Building and the Pentagon with explosive-laden model airplanes pleaded guilty Tuesday to two federal charges, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Under a plea deal, Rezwan Ferdaus is to serve 17 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the death of a Mexican resident who was allegedly shot over the Rio Grande River by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the Associated Press reports. The 29-year-old man was killed Saturday by a single bullet over the border from Brownsville, Texas. A spokesman for the Border Patrol said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has promoted an expert on public corruption as the new Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Division, feds announced Monday, reports Examiner.com. Michael J. Anderson worked public corruption cases in the Miami Division before being promoted to special agent in the Public Corruption Unit of the FBI’s Criminal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping investigating a cache of explosives found under a bridge in Orange County Monday, the LA Times reports. People working on a drain ditch found a backpack full of grenades, blasting caps and fuse igniters. If ignited, the explosive would have caused “major structural damage to the bridge,” Orange…
