By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Thirty years ago this week, a young Chinese-American man, Vincent Chin, was bludgeoned to death by a man wielding a baseball bat, only a few steps away from a strip club where he and his friends had been celebrating his bachelor’s party. The crime and its state and federal prosecutions raise…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Crime rates in 2011 fell to near historic lows, according to the FBI. Preliminary figures released Monday show violent crimes and property crimes reported dropped in 2011 compared to the previous year. Specifically, violent crimes fell 4 percent and property crimes dropped 0.8 percent. In the violent crime offenses category, murder…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details continue to roll in about the kidnapping-murder-suicide of Adam Mayes, who had just been placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Mayes in April had abducted a mother and her three daughters. The mother, Jo Ann Bain and the eldest daughter were found dead. The FBI says that the two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A fed jury on Thursday issued a superseding indictment charging a New Orleans man with the murder of five people, one of whom was an off-duty New Orleans cop. Steven Earl Hardrick, 27, was charged with violations of the federal controlled substances act and federal firearms laws, carjacking, witness tampering and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier could come back to haunt us here in the homeland. CNN reports that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security put out a bulletin on Wednesday issuing that warning, saying “there is currently no specific, credible threat information” but that the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A six-year sentence was handed down to Santa Barbara County, Calif., resident Eugene Darryl Temkin, 51, who solicited an FBI informant posing as a “hitman” to murder several individuals, the FBI announced on Monday. A judge found Temkin guilty of soliciting a crime in violence, attempting to interfere with interstate commerce…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Consider the streets of Suffolk County, N.Y. that much safer: Five members of the violent street gang MS-13 were named in a indictment unsealed on Monday, the FBI announced later that day. The charges include murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, armed robberies, firearms…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A fire at a suburban Chicago home may have been used to hide the murder of four people in the house, ATF agents have told the Associated Press. A woman and three young relatives were found dead by gunshot in the home, presumably shot before the blaze began, according to the…
