By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Louisiana’s governor in the mid-1960s doled out privately raised money to Ku Klux Klan members in hopes of avoiding racial violence, FBI records show. The Advocate reports that Klan members were promised money after the 1964 gubernatorial election in exchange for peace. FBI agents believed that Gov. John J. McKeithen, who…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its 2015-2016 term with oral arguments in October on three tough cases on capital punishment from the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent was shot and wounded while trying to rescue a 9-year-old girl from a kidnapper in a Louisiana hotel Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The agent was struck in the leg and will survive. The 24-year-old kidnapping suspect, however, died after a member of the FBI task force shot…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com How could 22-year-old Victor White III fatally shoot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car in New Iberia, La.? The Louisiana State Police completed its investigation of the unusual case, but the 16th Judicial District Attorney Phil Haney said his office will await the results of a separate…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents raided the Homer Police Department in Louisiana Friday as part of an investigation into the department, the Shreveport Times reports. Agents executed a search warrant announced, the FBI confirmed to the Times. The nature of the investigation is unclear but officers were told to turn over their Tasers, the Times…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some of the suspects in the fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have ties to violent anarchists on the FBI’s domestic terrorism watch lists, the Associated Press reports. The FBI is joining the investigation of Thursday’s shootout in Laplace, La., where two deputies were killed and two more wounded, police said. At least…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Stephen E. Richardson, an inspector with the Office of Inspections, is leaving the mothership at headquarters and heading south to take charge of the Mobile, Ala. FBI office. Richardson began his career with the FBI in 1996 and was first assigned to the New Orleans Division, Lafayette Resident Agency, and later…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Pro football can be a dirty sport on the field, and apparently sometimes off the field. An FBI-Louisiana State Police task force is investigating allegations that the New Orleans Saints set up general manager Mickey Loomis’ booth at the Superdome so he could eavesdrop on opposing coaches, the Associated Press reported….
