By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A leader of a Bloods street gang in New Jersey has admitted to the murder of an innocent teenager in a case of mistaken identity, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark. Torien Brooks, the 30-year-old leader of the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims subgroups or chapters of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Assistant U.S. Attorneys seem to have found a new home with New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie. The Asbury Press reports that Christie, who was the U.S. Attorney in Newark from from 2002 though 2008, has appointed more than two dozen former federal prosecutors to his administration or State Superior Court. Nearly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the most modern of technology comes the most modern of crimes. Two men — one from Arkansas and another from California — were arrested Tuesday and charged in Newark, N.J. with hacking into the AT&T’s servers and stealing emails and personal info of about 120,000 Apple iPad users including such…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has cleared New Jersey’s ex-acting U.S. Attorney and the former head of the Newark FBI of wrongdoing related to statements they made in 2009 at a press conference regarding a major public corruption indictment of more than 40 people, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — NBC weatherman Al Roker predicts the weather, but his production company, which produces the reality TV show “DEA”, has been reluctant to predict whether there will be a third season for the program featured on Spike TV. By most accounts, the forecast for a third season looks doubtful. The…
A rookie mistake? Hardly. By The Newark Star-Ledger Staff NEWARK –– A federal immigration agent suspected of robbing drug dealers was arrested yesterday during a pre-dawn sting at a Newark warehouse where he allegedly tried to steal what he believed was a shipment of cocaine, authorities said. Valentino Johnson, a 25-year-old rookie agent, was surrounded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, it’s always a little awkward when someone from the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees our airports, gets arrested. But that’s what happened Friday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Associated Press reports that airport authorities arrested TSA agent Wanda Weems of Newark after she boarded a Continental Airlines flight…
This is a fascinating story that has all the markings of great movie. But federal authorities don’t see it as entertaining, nor amusing. By Joe Ryan Newark Star-Ledger NEWARK — Last August, authorities say, Paul Bergrin traveled from Newark to Chicago hoping to meet a hit man. Bergrin, who investigators describe as a go-to lawyer…
