Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Sanford Police won’t return to George Zimmerman his gun and other evidence used at his murder trial after the FBI urged against giving back the weapon, The Orlando Sentinel reports. It’s a sign that the Justice Department is moving forward with an investigation into whether Zimmerman violated the civil rights of…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The acquittal Saturday of George Zimmerman in a Florida state courtroom has already brought cries by civil rights leaders for a federal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 19-year-old roommate of the Chechen man killed by an FBI agent in Florida last month was ordered by an immigration judge to leave the country by July 1, raising fears that she is being swept out of the country before she can provide details to law enforcement, the Boston Globe reports….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Chechen immigrant fatally shot by an FBI agent in Florida had connections to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the Associated Press reports. Ibragim Todashev has a lot in common with bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed during a shootout with police. He has Chechen roots, experience with mixed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Anthony Caravella, who is mentally challenged, served 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit in Florida, and the two Miramar cops who framed him may never see time behind bars, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The case drew the attention of the Justice Department after a civil lawsuit ended last…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida man forced his way onto a plane, claiming he was an FBI informant who was having medical complications and needed to fly to Boston, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. When the 28-year-old Fort Myers man was taken to a hospital after faking a seizure, he exposed himself to nurses, asking if…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jarrod M. Petrelli died young, and he died suddenly. The St. Louis FBI agent, who was 34, about to turn 35, died at a training conference in Florida, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper reported that he died last week of natural causes. He worked violent gangs during his four…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired DEA agent was arrested on accusations of trying to buy sex from an undercover officer in Palm Bay, Florida, WDBO reports. The former agent, David Costa, 76, was nabbed as part of a sting operation undercover officers posing as prostitutes, WDBO reported. “It just sometimes amazes me how many people…
