By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In 2009, the number of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty reached a 50-year low. That downward trend is gone. The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) in Washington is reporting a 43 percent increase of officers killed in the line of duty during the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — While I was a reporter at the Detroit News covering the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit, FBI agent Herman Groman left his mark. When the FBI ran a massive sting that netted a number of crooked local judges, Herman Groman was in thick of all of that. A few…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Perhaps it should come as no big shock that Johnny Lee Wicks, the man who killed one court security officer and wounded a deputy Marshal in the Las Vegas federal courthouse on Monday, had a violent criminal past. The Associated Press is reporting that Wicks, 66, served 12 to 15 years…
FBI agent Steve Martinez is packing his bags after heading the FBI’s Las Vegas office to take on a bigger job: Heading the Los Angeles Office. Bigger job, bigger headaches. But he’s up for it. By Richard A. Serrano Las Vegas Sun LAS VEGAS — One of Steve Martinez’s first experiences as the head of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Steven M. Martinez, the head of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division, moves further west where he’ll take over the FBI’s Los Angeles office. He replaces Salvador Martinez, who retired. “Steve’s breadth of experience in his nearly 23 years of service to the FBI makes him well-suited for this role,”…
The wide ranging, multi-state probe into the death of Michael Jackson continues. Here’s the latest. By MAGGIE LILLIS LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL LAS VEGAS –Federal agents searched a pharmacy in a Las Vegas strip mall Tuesday morning as part of the investigation into the death of entertainer Michael Jackson. Although Drug Enforcement Administration agents at the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities delivered a knockout punch to a Las Vegas judge — a boxing judge that is. Judge Paul G. Smith, 65, of Las Vegas, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of unlawfully collecting about $250,000 in Social Security benefits from 1994 to 2005. Seems the good judge…
What better place to stage an overthrow of the government than Las Vegas, a place that probably has more money than our U.S. Treasury. By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Four members of an anti-government group have been arrested on charges that include money laundering, tax evasion and weapons possession, federal prosecutors said Friday….
