Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Arizona prison supervisor was arrested this week on charges that he had sex with two male inmates who were given cigarettes in exchange, according to Smoking Gun. An FBI surveillance camera caught Carl David Evans in a menage a trios with two inmates in a storage closet. The camera was set…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two inmates in Indiana are accused of running a drug enterprise out of prison with the help of cellphones smuggled in by guards, the Associated Press reports. The pair, Oscar Perez and Justin Addler, who are housed at different prisons, sold methamphetamine and heroin to inmates, according to a federal indictment that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former federal immigration intelligence director was sentenced to 20 months in prison Friday after getting four subordinates to fraudulently claim more than $500,000 in false expense and pay claims, Reuters reports. James M. Woosley, 48, the former acting director of the intelligence office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty…
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On any ordinary day, Richard Wershe Jr. sleeps in and skips breakfast in his prison in northern Michigan. But on Tuesday — the 25th anniversary of his arrest in Detroit – he couldn’t sleep, so he grabbed some oatmeal with skim milk. “I probably slept two hours,”…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The inevitable has arrived. Ex-Rep. William Jefferson of cash-in-the-freezer fame is heading off to prison Friday in Beaumont, Tex. to begin serving his 13-year sentence, Bruce Alpert, star reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. He was sentenced 2 1/2 years ago, but stayed out of prison pending his appeal. In March,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the guy who had an acute case of rambling on and on, may be a bit more careful now that he’s behind bars. The Illinois governor, aka “Blago”, reported to prison Thursday morning at the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in suburban Denver, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Now Blago…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One time baseball slugger Barry Bonds was sentenced Friday in San Francisco federal court to 30 days of house arrest, two years probation and a $4,000 fine for his obstruction of justice conviction in 2003 tied to his testimony to a grand jury probing illegal steroid use, CNN reported. The network…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s been six years since FBI agents raided ex-Congressman William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill home and found $90,000 in his freezer, and more than two years since he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for bribery and other public corruption charges. Still, the 64-year-old New Orleans politician, who lost Jefferson a…
