Woman Who Fatally Shot FBI Agent Ordered to Stay in Prison
Christina Korbe, who fatally shot an FBI agent during a drug raid in Pennsylvania, won’t be freed from prison early, a federal judge has ruled.
Christina Korbe, who fatally shot an FBI agent during a drug raid in Pennsylvania, won’t be freed from prison early, a federal judge has ruled.
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 The mother of slain Pittsburgh FBI agent Samuel Hicks asked a federal judge for justice before sentencing for drug dealer Robert Korbe, whose wife shot and killed agent Hicks, according to a letter she wrote to a judge in September. The letter was unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The convicted drug dealer whose wife shot and killed a Pittsburgh FBI agent in 2008 during a raid at their home was sentenced Friday in federal court to 25 years in prison, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The paper reported that Robert Korbe, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, gun and insurance…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A drug dealer whose wife shot and killed Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008 during an FBI raid at their home laughed when he learned the agent had been shot, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. As a result of that and his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Korbe, the man whose wife shot Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008 while Hicks was serving an arrest warrant, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking charges, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry will sentence Korbe in September, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Last November, the Baltimore FBI office was named after Sam Hicks, a slain Pittsburgh FBI agent who had worked as a Baltimore cop. Now his name lives on in a piece of national legislation. The House on Tuesday passed a bill named after Hicks that will allow federal law…