A prominent federal narcotics prosecutor was caught on police body cam footage trying to give his Department of Justice business card to officers who arrived at his Florida home to investigate a hit-and-run on the Fourth of July.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent and a prosecutor had a secret affair while working together on controversial storefront operations in Georgia and are under investigation following allegations they illegally helped in informant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The storefront investigations were the subject of intense scrutiny following alarming reports by the Journal Sentinel…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An internal investigation found widespread mishandling of FBI evidence in every region of the country, the New York Times reports. The highly critical report found that the FBI’s evidence collection and retention system is beset by errors, either through mishandling, mislabeling or losing evidence. The report also found that the FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI wasted no time tracking down a group of men accused of a revenge kidnapping of a North Carolina man. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the latest suspect to be arrested plans to confess to the violent scheme that allegedly was orchestrated by Kelvin Melton, an inmate serving a life sentence…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Orlando’s top prosecutor pledged to review the fatal shooing of a Chechen immigrant in his condo during an FBI interrogation, The Associated Press reports. The news comes the same week Ibragim Todashev’s father arrived in Florida with the intention of suing the bureau for his son’s death. State Attorney Jeff Ashton said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The murder and racketeering case against accused mobster James ‘Whitey” Bulger may have reached its final days as prosecutors and defense attorneys prepare to present lengthy closing arguments today, the Associated Press wrote. The nearly eight-week trial will give way to closing arguments after jurors heard testimony about 19 killings in which…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Family members grieving the murder of a Texas prosecutor and his wife want the FBI to take over the investigation, KMOV 4 St. Louis reports. Family of Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were fatally shot in their home March 31, two months after a prosecutor from the same office was shot…
