Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new team of five FBI agents soon will begin investigating public corruption in Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch reports. While Ohio isn’t considered a hotbed of corruption, it will join many other states with a special squad dedicated to investigating public officials. “Most capital cities have a squad,” said Edward J. Hanko,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Ohio man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent during a raid on his home on June 28 was a registered sex offender, the Dayton Daily News reports. Fallacy Myers, 43, was convicted of indecent solicitation of a child in 1995 in Kansas, and was a registered sex offender until…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s never good when you hit your father. It’s really bad when he’s partially blind. The Vindicator newspaper reports that Sheila Lawson, 46, a former FBI agent, was arrested on the east side of Youngstown, Ohio after allegedly assaulting her father. The paper reports that Lawson hit her father because he…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Religion can unite folks. It can also divide them. It can also make them do some crazy things. Just ask the Amish. A federal grand jury in Cleveland on Wednesday issued a seven-count indictment charging 10 men and 2 women who are part of an Amish breakaway group with federal crimes…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Amish beard-cutting saga grows stranger and stranger. Talking Points Memo now reports that, along with scissors and clippers, federal agents also found evidence of marijuana and cocaine during a raid on the compound of the beard-cutting suspects. As previously reported, the FBI investigated possible hate crimes among the Amish community…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Clifford Cousins will not be out on good behvior any time soon. The 41-year-old prison inmate, already serving time for murder, arson and robbery–he was once accused of threatening President George Bush–is facing new charges of threatening a federal judge in northeast Ohio. Cousins, also known as Abdullah Jihad Al-Malik, was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From an outsider’s viewpoint, the Amish are known for their food products and beards and cultural simplicity. Now comes the FBI. Station WKYC reports that the FBI is investigating crimes in eastern Ohio involving Amish-on-Amish incidents, including beard cutting. WKYC reported that the FBI is looking into whether hate crimes are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Depending on where you stand on the issue of gun sales, here’s good or bad news: Gun sales continue to rise in this country, according to the Dayton Daily News. The paper based its conclusion on FBI background checks for gun sales — a good indicator of sales — which increased…
