By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping investigate the hanging death of a 54-year-old black man in Mississippi. Local police in the small central Mississippi town of Port Gibson requested the bureau’s help to determine whether Otis Byrd was murdered or committed suicide. Byrd was last seen on March 2 and was found Thursday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com George Phillips, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1980 to 1994 and oversaw corruption cases, including the FBI’s Operation Pretense, which led to the prosecutions of 57 Mississippi supervisors on corruption charges, has died the Clarion-Ledger reports.. He was 65. The Clarion-Ledger reports that he…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As far as threats go, this isn’t the FBI’s most dire. The bureau launched an investigation into an anonymous letter that threatened someone would damage trees and shrubs in the Center of Ole Miss’ campus, the USA Today reports. “What’s going to happen to y’all on the field Saturday Aint nothing…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The 60s were a tumultuous decade, and 1964 was emblematic of that decade. Arthur Ashe won the US Open, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The 60s were a tumultuous decade, and 1964 was emblematic of that decade. Arthur Ashe won the US Open, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace. The Beatles came to America and established a beachhead for the “British invasion.” Lyndon Johnson, a Southern Democrat,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are still scratching their heads after a young woman tried to pass through security with 81 pounds of marijuana. KHON 2 reports that Anastasia Murdock, 26, was carrying about $100,000 worth of pot in vacuum sealed bags in her luggage at Oakland International Airport on Friday. “Security says she may…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Here’s a little unsolicited advice: Don’t pull a gun on an FBI agent. That’s what a Mississippi man learned after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison late last month, the Associated Press reports. Eugene Bernardini, 38, bumped into a car in Olive Branch and then pulled a gun on the…
