OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST: US Reviewing anti-Muslim School Bias Complaint (AP) Man Accused of Raping Girl, 12, and Forcing Her into Prosecution (LA Times) FBI Investigates Christmas Eve Hack (BayouBuzz.com) Austin-Area Law Enforcement Spends Two Years Focused on Mexican Mafia Activity (The Republic)
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barack Obama has named a new man to head federal law enforcement in the drug trafficking-prone US Virgin Islands, reports the Daily World. Ronald W. Sharpe is the new US Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. Sharpe has deep roots and extended family in the area, according to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man charged in the Feb. 15 murder in Mexico of ICE agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE agent Victor Avila has been extradited from Mexico to the U.S. to face trial. The Justice Department announced the charges and the extradition on Wednesday of Julian Zapata Espinoza, aka…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Religion can unite folks. It can also divide them. It can also make them do some crazy things. Just ask the Amish. A federal grand jury in Cleveland on Wednesday issued a seven-count indictment charging 10 men and 2 women who are part of an Amish breakaway group with federal crimes…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’re going to bribe a country, you might as well do it big time. That’s what eight former executives and agents of Siemens AG and its subsidiaries must have figured. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that the eight had been charged with allegedly engaging in a decade-long scheme to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Former sheriff of Worth County, Mo. Neal Wayne “Bear” Groom was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison followed by a year of supervised release for violating the civil rights of several women by getting them to expose parts of their body, according to a statement from the Justice Department. Following…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In the wake of the financial sector’s meltdown, many were on the hunt for the blood of bankers. But convictions for wrongdoing on Wall Street have been remarkably scarce in the aftermath of the industry’s collapse–no small part of why Occupy Wall Street protestors have gathered in lower Manhattan. A Wall…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Another story from the city known for deep dish pizza, hot dogs and public corruption: a former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty Friday to a series of charges involving collusion with the violent Latin Kings street gang. Antonio C. Martinez Jr., a 40-year-old former Chicago police officer, faces a possible lifetime…
