By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Pennsylvania dentist had his home raided Friday night after being accused of threatening the life of an FBI agent, reports WPXI. Anthony Dinozzi lost his license to practice dentistry after being convicted on drug charges in Ohio in 2002, according to WPXI. The newer criminal complaint alleges that Dinozzi…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After shooting at FBI agents, 30-year-old Frank Perez Jr. was arrested peacefully in a Pittsburgh suburb Tuesday, station WTAE in Pittsburgh reported. The arrest in Verona, Pa., came after a nearly three-hour standoff with agents and an Allegheny County SWAT Team, WTAE reported. “He came out on his own,” FBI Special…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Cross burnings which once symbolized the pervasive racism in parts of the South decades ago, is apparently not a thing of the past, and apparently knows no boundaries. The Justice Department on Wednesday announced that Michael Francis Bealonis,19, of Robinson, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to burning a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in federal court in Pittsburgh to voluntary manslaughter and discharging a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in the fatal shooting of FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Under the plea agreement, Christina Korbe was sentenced to 15…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds are gearing up for the trial of a woman accused of killing Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry has ordered the federal jury administrator to summon 350 people to serve as the jury pool for the March…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Los Angeles U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O’Brien says he wrote a check this week reimbursing the government in instances where he stayed in hotel rooms that cost more than the government-approved rate, the Los Angeles Times reported. O’Brien was one of five U.S. Attorneys cited in a Justice…
By The New York Times Editorial Page The day after Thanksgiving, 2002, was a slow day in the Pittsburgh office of the F.B.I., so a supervisor sent a special agent to a rally against the threatened war in Iraq to look for any terrorism suspects who might be there, just to ”see what they are…
