By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A member of the US military has been charged after being detained at a Texas airport over the weekend for attempting to board a plane with explosives wrapped in military-grade wrapping, the Associated Press reports. Trey Scott Atwater was stopped by security at the Midland International Airport around 9 a.m. on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It was a busy day for authorities with the DEA and local law enforcement in San Antonio Thursday, where agents rounded up and brought to federal court 6 of 17 suspects facing murder, racketeering and drug charges, reports Kens5.com The suspects were members of the Texas Syndicate. The indictment claims the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For guys like Steven Scott Cantrell, hate never goes out of style. Luckily in this case, either does justice. The 26-year-old member of the Aryan Brotherhood, who hails from from Crane, Tex. was sentenced Wednesday in fed court in Midland, Tex., to 37.5 years for a hate crime stemming from a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Talk about a lousy holiday gift. Warren Jeffs, the polygamist and cult leader imprisoned in Texas, sent judges throughout the state copies of his book “Proclamations” last week. Now local authorities and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force are looking into the gift giving as a possible threat, according to the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barry Walter Bojul’s trip to Yemen has been detoured, possibly by as much as 20 years in a federal prison. The 30-year-old Texan’s conviction in a Houston federal court on Monday was the culmination of an investigation that began in 2009 by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was convicted…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A man in a Lincoln SUV refused to stop when Border Patrol agents attempted to pull him over, instead opting to try and run over an agent his vehicle. The agent shot the driver in the chest and killed him, reports Caller.com, of Corpus Christi, Tex. The incident took place on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethwire.com They say things are bigger in Texas, and a recent Tex-Mex plate of indictments and potential sentences certainly are. A group of members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been indicted with a buffet of charges that may net them decades in prison, the FBI announced in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former supervisory intelligence research specialist for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, Tex. pleaded guilty Thursday to misusing his diplomatic passport and submitting fictitious expenses that amounted to at least $70,000. Ahmed Adil Abdallat, 64, pleaded guilty in federal court in El Paso to two counts of misuse of…
