By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to keep the unsolved 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Crane Wales out in the public eye. The latest: The FBI has posted on its website a summary of the case along with Wales’ photo and reminder that the Justice Department is offering up to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Investigators are looking at an imprisoned serial killer and former FBI informant as a possible suspect in the 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Tom Wales, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Wales, 49, and a father of two, was sitting in front of his computer in the basement of his home…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By now one thing we’ve learned in this post-9/11 world of our is that cartoons aren’t always a laughing matter. The FBI has reportedly advised Seattle-based cartoonist Molly Norris to go into hiding as a result of a fatwa or death sentence that has been issued. The fatwa was issued after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s bad enough airline customers have to pay to check in luggage. But to have to pay and then have things stolen from the luggage. Well, former Transportation Security Administration supervisor Randy Pepper pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to stealing $20,000 in jewelry and other items from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hunt for a convicted felon wanted in the slayings of four Washington state police officers ended early Tuesday morning when police shot and killed him in South Seattle, the Seattle Times reported. The paper reported that police shot Maurice Clemmons while he was standing in the 4400 block of South…
Sure it seems dangerous for a bank teller to track down a bank robber. But it also seems unfair to fire someone for doing that. If banks are so obsessed with sound policy, why did they get involved in so many reckless home loans and sub-prime mortgages? By Jennifer Sullivan Seattle Times SEATTLE — Jim…
Sure love is blind. But federal authorities aren’t. And they say some folks here were ordering up sham marriages. By GENE JOHNSON AP Legal Affairs Writer SEATTLE — The owner of a Seattle area chain of Thai restaurants pleaded not guilty Tuesday to paying four of her workers to enter into sham marriages allowing three…
