By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to Thomas W. Richardson: Get your cash elsewhere. Richardson, a former IRS employee form Mansfield, Tex., was sentenced in Dallas last week to 8 years and 9 months for scheme in which he tried bilking the IRS out of millions of dollars to start a real estate business, the Justice…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A three-month-long DEA operation ended with federal drug and firearm charges filed against 31 people, CBS reports. The charges were made in the Texas towns of Midland and Odessa by the DEA’s Mobile Enforcement Team. Most defendants were arrested Thursday morning or were already in custody, according to CBS. The charges…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal agents detained an armed man outside of the Dallas home of President George W. Bush, reports Reuters. The man had a weapon in his car but was released after being questioned on Tuesday, a spokesman for the US Secret Service told Reuters. The unidentified man told agents and local police…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Sgt. 1st Class Trey Scott Atwater, the military man who shut down a Texas airport over the weekend when he tried to carry on explosives to a flight, said he didn’t know the prohibited materials were in his bag, FayObserver reports. Atwater had not used his carry-on bag since bringing it…
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…
