By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Local authorities in southern Mississippi have contacted the FBI for help investigating a paramilitary group known as the Savior Unit, reports the Hattiesburg American. The group is comprised mostly of teenagers and young adults. Michael Shaun Schaffran, the 32-year-old believed to be the group’s leader, and Cody Jacob Rogers, 18, were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Jackson, Miss. U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, who was appointed by President Bush in 2001, and led the prosecutions in some old civil rights case, died Wednesday of natural causes, the station WAPT reported. He was 60. While serving as U.S. Attorney, his office led the prosecution of once-dormant civil rights cases…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shades of Mississippi in the 1960s? The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of a black man who Mississippi authorities say was intentionally run down and killed by a white teenager in a pickup truck in June near a Jackson hotel, the Associated Press reports. Deborah Madden,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI building in Jackson, Miss.,officially has a pretty long name. The building this week is being named after three civil rights workers killed by Klansmen 47 years ago, as well as the FBI agent who headed the probe, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. The paper reported that the James Chaney, Andrew…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Mississippi U.S. Attorney H.M. Ray, whose 20- year reign included the 1960s civil rights era, and who served under five presidents, died at age 86, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. Ray was appointed by President Kennedy to the Jackson, Miss. office, and resigned right after Ronald Reagan became president in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Presidential appointments in law enforcement continue to trickle in. The White House on Wednesday announced the nominations of Dennis J. Erby for U.S.Marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi and Edward M. Spooner for U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Florida. Spooner is currently Assistant Special Agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday nominated three U.S. Attorneys and three U.S. Marshals. The nominees for U.S. Attorney include Charlotte lawyer Thomas Gray Walker for North Carolina’s Eastern District, assistant U.S. Attorney Felicia Adams for the Northern District of Mississippi and S. Amanda Marshall. So far, according to the Justice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — States around the country are turning to the Justice Department for help in locating an execution drug, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that 13 states signed a letter sent to the Justice Department asking for help scoring sodium thiopental after the only U.S. manufacturer stopped producing it and…
