By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James T. Akagi, an assistant special agent in charge of the Oklahoma City DEA office, and a 25-year veteran of the agency, has been named the new police chief for Oak Ridge, Tenn. Oak Ridge city manager Mark Watson said Akagi, 49, began his career with the DEA in 1986, and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — States around the country are turning to the Justice Department for help in locating an execution drug, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that 13 states signed a letter sent to the Justice Department asking for help scoring sodium thiopental after the only U.S. manufacturer stopped producing it and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in Nashville on Thursday convicted an FBI agent on 15 counts of wire fraud and three counts of bankruptcy fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Agent Darin Lee McAllister, 44, of Brentwood, Tenn., who is married to a Christian gospel singer, was indicted in May on the multiple…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David C. Kernell, the son of a Tennessee state lawmaker, was sentence Friday to one year and one day in prison for hacking into Sarah Palin’s email during the 2008 presidential campaign, the Justice Department said. Kernell, 23, was convicted in April after a week-long trial on one count of misdemeanor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Tennessee White Supremacist who planned to go on a killing spree of African-Americans and kill Barack Obama during his campaign for the presidency is off to prison for 14 years. Daniel Cowart, 22, of Bells, Tenn. was sentenced Friday in Tennessee after he pleaded guilty earlier in the year to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Russ Dedrick, the Knoxville, Tenn. U.S. Attorney some call “Captain America”, is retiring, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. The 63-year-old prosecutor steps down this week. He is expected to be replaced by William C. Killian. Former U.S. Attorney John Gill, who hired Dedrick as a federal prosecutor during the Reagan…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Nashville FBI agent, who is married to a Christian gospel singer, has been indicted on host of fraud charges, including allegations he defrauded the SunTrust Mortgage Company to buy $1.25 million in rental properties in 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville announced. Additionally, the 19-count indictment issued Wednesday charged…
