Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A day before his planned execution. a Mississippi inmate made a last-minute appeal Monday after the FBI acknowledged it erred in analyzing the forensic evidence, the Washington Post reports. Willie Jerome Manning, 44, was to die today at 6 p.m. by lethal injection after being convicted of the 1992 killings of two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI announced Wednesday that it arrested a man in connection with the mailing of three letters suspected of containing ricin. The letters were sent to a U.S. senator, the White House and a Mississippi justice official. Agent around 5:15 p.m. arrested Paul Kevin Curtis at his home in Corinth, Miss….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mississippi congressman is urging the FBI to join an investigation into the slaying of an openly gay mayoral candidate, the Associated Press reports. Marco McMillian, 34, was running for mayor in Clarksdale when someone dragged him of out a car and beat him to death, the AP wrote. The 22-year-old suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is investigating a Mississippi school district that is accused of sending predominately black and disabled children to jail without probable cause for minor offenses, the Associated Press reports. A suit filed by the Justice Department said jail is used as “a medium for school discipline,” the AP reported. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested four people – three of them former and current cops – accused of scheming to steal cash from drug dealers, the bureau announced Wednesday, according to the Jackson Free Press. In September 2011, the men allegedly entered a Jackson, Mississippi, hotel room of suspected drug dealers and stole $23,000 in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is consolidating two offices in Mississippi into a larger one in Oxford as part of a budget-cutting move, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. But the move – relocating Tupelo and Greenville into Oxford –won’t affect staffing, an FBI spokeswoman told the Daily Journal. “The consolidation will not affect the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Inadequate medical care, poor food and overzealous guards was the catalyst for the deadly riot at a prison for illegal immigrants in Mississippi in May, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit, the Associated Press reports. Inmates in the privately-run Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez pledged to disobey orders until demands for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chances are when you break in to an FBI agent’s government issued car you’re not going to get away with it. Agents have a tendency to really want to find the missing equipment, particularly when it involves guns. The Associated Press reported that three men have been charged with stealing or…
