By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old director of a Boy Scout camp in Western Michigan got socked on Friday with a 95-year prison term in Grand Rapids federal court for child pornography charges. Specifically, Scott Allan Herrick surreptitiously videotaped boys as they were dressing in the locker room in the YMCA in Muskegon, and kept…
FBI had bank robbers under surveillance: woodtv.com
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI report shows that mortgage fraud appears to be on the rise. The FBI said it had 3,129 pending mortgage fraud investigations in 2010, up 12 percent from 2009 and up 90 percent from 2008 when the economy tanked and the real estate market was already in dire straights. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– The case of the smashed up $750,000 Ferrari simply won’t go away for the FBI and the Justice Department. Reporter Ed White of the Associated Press reports that a Southfield, Mi. insurance firm, which is suing the feds to recover money from the crash, is wondering about the suspicious…
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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An interesting thing happened on the way to the alter: An undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Hutaree militia in Michigan ended up signing the marriage certificate for the group’s leader using a bogus name, the website AnnArbor.com reported. The site reported, citing an FBI 302 report, that the undercover agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed Tuesday night at the Arizona-Mexico border and at least four people were in custody, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement issued Wednesday. “Last night, Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was shot and killed after he encountered several…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Michigan man and woman convicted of trying to extort $680,000 from actor John Stamos were each sentenced to four years in prison Friday in U.S. District Court in Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The couple, Scott Edward Sippola 31, and Allison Lenore Coss,24, both of…
