By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least nine Miami police officers are the target of an FBI investigation into a scheme to protect an illegal sports-betting operation, the Miami Herald reports. The officers are accused of protecting a Liberty City gambling ring that operated out of a barber shop. The Miami Herald wrote that six of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is it possible to have too much evidence against someone? It appears so after a federal judge in Iowa dropped a case involving the nation’s largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies, the Associated Press reports. The evidence against former Miami doctor, Armando Angulo, included more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Racial profiling might seem lucrative, but the cost of doing business will eventually catch up. A Florida police officer who was arrested for stealing cash from Hispanics he pulled over was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, reports the Miami Herald. Mark Ott’s sentence comes eight months after a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the “dirty bomber”, Jose Padilla, got too soft of a sentence, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The Associated Press reports that the appeals court vacated the 17-year sentence and ordered a new sentencing. Padilla, a Muslim convert, was convicted in 2007 along with two…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The feds in Miami are taking aim at some big guys in the drug world. Authorities filed charges against Daniel Barrera-Barrera, an international drug smuggler with alleged ties to terrorist groups in Columbia, reports the Miami Herald. The report calls Barrera-Barrera, 42, one of Columbia’s most-wanted, and says he “maintains a partnership with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and former director William Webster were among several hundred law enforcement folks who gathered in North Miami Beach Monday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of one of the most horrific events in the agency’s history that ended with two agents dead and another five wounded,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rogue Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who was faulted for getting too close to his mob informants, will remain behind bars. The Miami Herald reports that the Florida Third District of Appeal on Wednesday upheld his 2008 conviction in the murder of Miami Jai-Alai executive John Callahan in 1982. He was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who authorities say stepped way over the line in his relationship with the mob, is appealing his 2008 second-degree murder conviction in the 1982 mob-related slaying of a gambling executive in Miami, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that the Florida Court of Appeals will hear…
