By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bad news for ATF agent Michael Justin Fanelly. A fed grand jury in Raleigh, N.C. has indicted him on charges of witness tampering and making a false statement to a law enforcement officers, the News Observer reported. The paper reported that the grand jury charged that he interfered with two officers…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A North Carolina man sentenced last month to 45 years in prison for his role in a homegrown terrorist plot, faces new charges that he tried to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses that testified against him, the Charlotte Observer reported. Raleigh, N.C. resident Hysen Sherifi was charged Tuesday…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Armed with a search warrant, the DEA agents and local police seized about 1,100 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $660,000, along with several hundred thousand dollars in cash, a small amount of cocaine and two automobiles in North Carolina, reports GoDanRiver.com Three arrests were made of the Mexican suspects who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards has found a way to delay his pending federal trial on alleged campaign violations. The Associated Press reports that a North Carolina fed judge on Friday delayed his January trial date until at least March 26 after his cardiologist sent two letters to the judge citing Edward’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members and partners of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Washington Field Office, who were involved in a sting that targeted a plot to blow up the Washington area subway system in 2010, will be among those honored Oct. 4 in Washington at the Anti Defamation League’s second annual…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It didn’t take long for Raleigh U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding — who charged ex-Sen. John Edwards with campaign violations shortly before stepping down this month — to figure out what he wants to do next. The former U.S. Attorney announced Wednesday that he plans to run for Congress in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sheriff’s deputy assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service task force was shot and killed Thursday while trying to serve an arrest warrant in a murder in Kinston, N.C., station WRAL reported. The station reported that the deputy, Warren “Sneak” Lewis, was a nine-year veteran of the Nash County Sheriff’s Department….
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…
