By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It was more than just a stocking stuffer. Federal agents gave more than $1.2 million in confiscated drug money to five police agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The money came from a former medical marijuana dispensary in the area. DEA and…
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 Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Speaking anonymously to the Washington Post, several attorneys said dozens of career antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department say they are likely to quit if the department goes ahead with plans to close four regional offices. Plans were announced earlier this month to close offices in the antitrust division in Atlanta,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A dying mother’s request helped the FBI nab her her son, who had been on the lam for 36 years. He had escaped from prison while serving life for a deadly San Francisco robbery. The Sacramento FBI Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force on Friday arrested William Walter Asher III, 66,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hard-charging late Tim Russert, who hosted NBC’s “Meet the Press” for more than 16 years, may have been beloved, but apparently not be everybody. The Hill newspaper reports that FBI files show that someone left a threatening voicemail for Russert at the tv station on March 7, 2001 at about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The San Francisco Police Department becomes the second major police force in the nation in recent months to place limits on what its officers can do as members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Following Portland, Oregon’s lead, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the San Francisco police chief…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Yemen native who tried twice ramming open the cockpit door of American Airlines Flight 1561 bound for San Francisco Sunday night, and yelled “God is great” in Arabic, remained behind bars, the Associated Press reported. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday ordered Rageh Al-Murisi, 28, of California, detained….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As days go, Monday was not Barry Bonds’ best one. His ex-girlfriend Kimberly Bell testified in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that the former baseball slugger for the San Francisco Giants told her he used steroids but “didn’t shoot it up everyday like bodybuilders did,” according to the San Francisco…
