Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In general, the entrepreneurial spirit should be lauded. Unfortunately, in this case, it was purely criminal. According to an FBI press release, 15 defendants allegedly registered 80 fake business names in Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, then used these to file for unemployment insurance benefits to the tune of $8.7 Million. Defendants reportedly…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A missing 9-year-old girl has been found dead, the Associated Press reports, and the girl’s babysitter was arrested on murder charges Monday night. The FBI had been helping in the search. Aliahna Lemmon’s body was found in northeast Indiana, near her family’s mobile home park, investigators say. They aren’t releasing where…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In Indiana, in the heart of the Midwest, a Chinese national working for two major U.S. companies pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing trade secrets about food products and pesticides and giving them to people in China and Germany, the Justice Department announced. It marked the first time ever that the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Law enforcement agencies are singing the old “finders’ keepers” adage in Indiana this week. After roughly $2.5 million in cash was seized during a March drug raid, with no claimants since, Indiana U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett said his department and several other Indiana law enforcement agencies will split the cash, Indiana…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-FBI employee in Indiana pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Hammond in connection with the theft of about $80,000 in evidence from the agency’s storage vault, according to the website nwi.com. Melissa Sims, 36, of Lowell,Ind., who worked as a evidence control technician at the bureau’s Merrillville office in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Robert J. Browning, Deputy Director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center at Quantico, has been named head of ATF’s Columbus, Ohio field division. A 23-year veteran of ATF, Browning worked at Quantico as part of a multi-agency organization responsible for analyzing improvised explosive device (IED) evidence, primarily from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI evidence control technician Melissa L. Sims found a nifty way to take home some extra cash from work: She stole it, the feds say. The Post-Tribune reported that FBI employee Melissa L. Sims is charged with stealing between 30,000 to $80,000 from the FBI’s Merrillville, Ind. office evidence room. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire Nine suspected members of a Christian militia were indicted in Detroit on charges of conspiring to kill law enforcement officers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Authorities charged that six Michigan residents, two from Ohio and one from Indiana plotted, according to one plan, to kill an unidentified law enforcement officer…
