Convicted gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is asking for a new trial, claiming he was given an unfair trial because he was barred from testifying about his contention that he received immunity for his crimes.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports. A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in December 2012 from bunt force trauma to the head. Agents arrested former officer Brian Coll and officer Byron Taylor. According to the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department criticized the DEA for the lax discipline of agents who detained a San Diego college student and left him without food or water for five days, NPR reports. Daniel Chong was handcuffed and left in a dark room during the 2012 detention in which he tried to stay…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DEA agents who left a 23-year-old college student in a holding cell for five days without food or water for allegedly possessing marijuana received a slap on the wrist. The agents, who said they forgot about Daniel Chong, were reprimanded or received short suspensions, even though the illegally detained student nearly…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is looking for help identifying suspects in its largest “sextortion” case ever prosecuted. WJXX-TV reports that a Northeast Florida man was asking for sexually explicit photos and videos of girls as young as 13 years old. “He pretended to be a young boy the same age,” said McCarley. “He…
Ex-DEA Administrator Peter Bensinger For New York Daily News The announcement by Mayor de Blasio that the NYPD would not be making arrests for small amounts of marijuana is in defiance of federal law and the laws of almost every country around the world. Possession of small amounts of marijuana is still a violation of New…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. immigration officer who accepted bribes of cash and egg rolls from people seeking citizenship and green cards was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison last week, Fox News reports. Mai Nhu Nguyen, 48, an officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Santa Ana, Calif., pleaded guilty to…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Utah man really wanted the FBI’s attention. Robert Zickella, 49, is accused of calling the FBI in St. George at least 112 times over several days, threatening agents and threatening to blow up the bureau’s office, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Zickella is being held in the Purgatory Correctional Facility…
