By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The nationwide hunt for a transient suspected of bombing a Santa Monica, Calif. synagogue last week ended Monday night with his arrest in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the FBI said. The FBI said a citizen tip resulted in the arrest of Ron Hirsch, who had taken a Greyhound bus on the day…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It could be prison time for a former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty in Ohio, who was convicted on Friday in federal court of 10 counts of lying to the FBI, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. Authorities charged that she lied to agents investigating a political ally, then-County Auditor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Robert J. Browning, Deputy Director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center at Quantico, has been named head of ATF’s Columbus, Ohio field division. A 23-year veteran of ATF, Browning worked at Quantico as part of a multi-agency organization responsible for analyzing improvised explosive device (IED) evidence, primarily from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A white Supremacist from Oregon is off to prison. A federal judge in Toledo sentenced Daniel Lee Jones of Portland to 18 months in prison for sending the president of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the NAACP, a noose by mail. He pleaded guilty in May. In his plea agreement, Jones…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sophisticated and a person of means, convicted health care executive Rebecca S. Parrett was one tough person to track down. She was on the lam for two years. But the Justice Department announced Wednesday that Mexican authorities arrested Parrett, 62, Tuesday in the resort town of Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, thanks to…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors in Ohio are taking the unusual step and seeking the federal death penalty against a convicted drug dealer accused of setting off one of the deadliest fires in Cleveland’s history, according to the Associated Press. Federal authorities are taking aim at Antun Lewis, 26, who is accused of breaking…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently you can’t keep a good crooked politician down. Ex-Ohio Congressman James Traficant, who served seven years in prison after being convicted on public corruption charges, and was notorious for sporting a bad toupee, filed papers Monday to run in the 17th Congressional district in Ohio, a seat currently held by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire Nine suspected members of a Christian militia were indicted in Detroit on charges of conspiring to kill law enforcement officers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Authorities charged that six Michigan residents, two from Ohio and one from Indiana plotted, according to one plan, to kill an unidentified law enforcement officer…
