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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years after being elected President, the Obama administration is still working to fill the U.S. Attorney spots. The latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday gave the go ahead by voice vote for four U.S. Attorney nominees in Texas and one in Oregon. The full Senate must now…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI report shows that mortgage fraud appears to be on the rise. The FBI said it had 3,129 pending mortgage fraud investigations in 2010, up 12 percent from 2009 and up 90 percent from 2008 when the economy tanked and the real estate market was already in dire straights. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division in Dallas was indicted Wednesday in Louisiana for allegedly lying about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with, the Justice Department announced. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Tex. was charged with obstruction of justice and…
