Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A little-known FBI crime lab near Washington played a critical role in convicting two men who helped target American soldiers in Iraq with improvised exploding devices, the Los Angeles Times reports. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammad pleaded guilty to smuggling Stinger surface-to-air missiles and money to terrorists in Iraq from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former Iraqi residents who were living in Kentucky were sentenced to prison this week for their involvement with terrorist activities, the FBI announced Tuesday. Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 25, was given a life sentence, while his conspirator, Waad Ramadan Alwan, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison. Both had already pleaded…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Anger management is a great idea for those working around firearms for a living. Unfortunately former Kentucky gunshop owner and former prison employee Ted Ray Schlenker, 48, of Louisville didn’t get that memo. Schlenker is charged with mailing threats and a gun to ATF agent Dan Volk in Bowling Green. Reports AP,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Having immunity has its benefits. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn of Detroit has dismissed a lawsuit by a suburban Detroit insurance company that was trying to get the government to pay up after an FBI agent smashed up a stolen $750,000, 1995 F50 Ferrari that was in government custody,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 46-year-old FBI agent, who headed a major corruption probe in Clay County, Ky., died Tuesday from an apparent heart attack while jogging, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The paper reported that Timothy S. Briggs, 46, who had been an agent since 1997, suffered the heart attack while jogging with another agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– A Michigan insurance company insists it’s still not getting justice from the Justice Department. The Associated Press reports that the Justice Department is still refusing to pay $750,000 to a Michigan insurance company for a stolen Ferrari F50 that was recovered, but then was wrecked while being driven by…
Loretta Lynch/law firm photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — With still plenty slots to fill nationwide, President Obama on Wednesday nominated lawyers for U.S. Attorney posts in Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and New York, the website Main Justice reported. The nominees, according to Main Justice, include Stephanie Finley for the Western District of Louisiana; …
It’s scary when a census worker might be the target of anti-government sentiment. There’s pockets in America where the hatred for the government runs deep, from farmers to militia members. DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY Associated Press When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural…
