By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s never a good idea. Daniel F. Cleary, 48, of Weston, Fla. knows that now. Clearly pleaded guilty last Friday in federal court in Southern Florida to impersonating an FBI agent, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Authorities said it all began on Jan. 13 of this year when Broward Sheriff’s Office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is going after another major police department. Nearly a year after it announced plans to look into questionable practices of the New Orleans Police Department, Justice officials on Monday said they were setting their sites on the Newark Police force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Perez and U.S….
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. Sixteen of those years were in the drug unit. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Mexican man has been indicted in the murder last Dec. 14 of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Southern Arizona. Terry was killed during a firefight. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, of El Fuerte, Mexico, and his co-defendants, who are fugitives, were charged in a 14-count indictment that was unsealed Friday, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After endless debate, the Portland City Council in Oregon voted unanimously Thursday for its police department to rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — sort of. The city quit the JTTF in 2005, citing concerns that the FBI was violating civil rights. It was also concerned its officers might snoop…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mayor of Portland, Ore., wants his police officers to rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — sort of. He’s offering up conditions some like. Others see them as being far too restrictive. As you recall, the city pulled its cops out of the JTTF in 2005, citing concerns about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The message is clear: Even hatemongers have Constitutional rights. The Chicago Tribune reports that a federal judge has tossed out the conviction in Chicago of white supremacist William White who posted personal information on his website about a jury foreman who helped convict a fellow white supremacist in 2004. A jury…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s serious prison time for Farooque Ahmed, 35, of Ashburn, Va., who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb the Washington area subway system. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce in Alexandria, Va. sentenced Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, to 23 years in prison. Ahmed thought he…
