By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI announced on Wednesday the sentencing of three grown men for taunting African-American middle school students in Louisiana. James Lee Wallis, Tony L. Johnson and Brial Wallis admitted to hanging a dead raccoon from a noose on a flagpole in front of Beekman Junior High School, in Beekman,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency pleaded guilty Monday to lying in a civil case about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Texas, who worked in the EPA Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in Dallas, pleaded guilty in federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Louisiana sheriff was busted Tuesday by the feds in a drug trafficking operation, the Shreveport Times reported. Winn Parish Sheriff Albert “Bodie” Little was among 11 people busted, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced Tuesday in a news release. The paper reported that Little appeared in court Tuesday in casual…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division in Dallas was indicted Wednesday in Louisiana for allegedly lying about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with, the Justice Department announced. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Tex. was charged with obstruction of justice and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Looks like the prolific “Grandad Bandit”, suspected of at least 25 bank robberies in 13 states in less than two years, is retiring involuntarily — and not to Florida to enjoy the early bird specials. The FBI said agents arrested the bandit, aka Michael Francis Mara, 52, of Baton Rouge, La.,…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com For a big-time Louisiana drug trafficker, the dog and cockfighting ring served as the ideal venue to help expand his drug ring. Pedro Mendez Ramos, of Church Point, La., who authorities described as “an avid pit bull and cock fighter”, used more than 300 gamecocks and 60 pit bulls as a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — With the Obama administration seething over the Gulf oil spill, a criminal probe may be one way to express anger against BP. The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will visit the out-control spill in the Gulf on Tuesday and meet with U.S. Attorneys from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For some people stuck in a certain era, public acts of hate never go out of style. Enter Joshua James Moro, 23, who has been indicted in connection with a 2008 cross-burning in Louisiana near the home of an interracial couple, the Justice Department said. Moro faces a charge of conspiring…
