Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Agent Gerard Conrad was just taking a stroll in Forest Park in Queens when he stumbled upon a meeting between top Gambino mobster Bartolomeo (Bobby) Vernace and others involved in the crime family, the New York Daily News reports. Conrad happened to be supervising 15 agents who were investigating the crime…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI shuttered its Kingston office in New York and moved staff and resources to the Albany offices, the Mid-Hudson News reports. The move will make operations run more smoothly, said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein. “The Albany division did not have any resources diverted away as part of the closing of this…
BY LARRY MCSHANE AND ROBERT GEARTY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK –Thirty mobbed-up suspects – including a ringleader known as “Papa Smurf” – were arrested Wednesday in a probe of the garbage-hauling industry, authorities said. The purported wise guys – members of the Gambino, Lucchese and Genovese organized crime families – were busted in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The threat of terrorism always looms, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI, which can take some credit for averting some potential terrorist attacks, has put together a list of of some of the top terrorist cases of 2012. The following was posted on the FBI website. Alabama men arrested on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A supervisor for Customs and Border Protection in New York is accused of possessing child porn, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that Steven Metz, who has been charged in federal court, is accused of receiving and distributing images and videos of children involved in sexual acts. Metz, 40, is on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent, along with a defense contractor, was indicted Thursday for participating in what authorities say was a multimillion-dollar scheme to win military contracts in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports. An FBI special agent assigned to counterintelligence work until September 2011, Robert G. Lustyik, 50, is accused of using his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Bangladeshi man is accused of assembling what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb and trying to detonate it to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Reuters reports. The FBI said Wednesday that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis drove the devise to the bank and walked back to his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New York has had its share of big drug busts. But when it comes to methamphetamine, the state has never seen a bigger one than the 50 pounds seized from a boardinghouse in Westchester County, CBS New York reports. The DEA called it the biggest meth bust in New York State history….
