Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new FBI agent will oversee operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Carlos Cases, previously served as director for Latin America and the southwest border for the FBI’s criminal investigations division in Washington, D.C., will monitor crimes in U.S. territories from the San Juan, Puerto Rico office, the FBI…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barack Obama has named a new man to head federal law enforcement in the drug trafficking-prone US Virgin Islands, reports the Daily World. Ronald W. Sharpe is the new US Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. Sharpe has deep roots and extended family in the area, according to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama continued to chip away at filling some law enforcement seats Wednesday by nominating a U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands and U.S. Marshals for Virginia and New Jersey. The president nominated Ronald W. Sharpe for U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Island. Sharpe has served as the interim…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nearly two weeks after a U.S. Virgin Islands judge tossed out the controversial murder charges against ATF agent Will Clark, the agency said it has still not decided whether to send agents to work there again. “It’s being evaluated and no decision has been made,” Donna Sellers, an ATF…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A U.S. Virgin Islands judge on Thursday tossed out the controversial case against ATF agent Will Clark who had been on trial since Monday on charges of murdering his neighbor during a confrontation in 2008. The Associated Press reported that Judge Edgar Ross tossed the case on a technicality,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ORLANDO — ATF agent Will Clark, who is on trial in the Virgin Islands for murder, is getting support from some very high places in the U.S. government. The ATF posted a photo on its webpage of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. addressing the annual conference for the International Association of…
Rep. Chris Lee at press conference By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) continued to apply pressure Thursday, holding a press conference near the Capitol in an attempt to get the Virgin Islands to drop murder charges against ATF agent Will Clark who shot and killed someone in September 2008 during a…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — From Capitol Hill to the Caribbean, a controversy is growing over a decision by Virgin Islands officials to charge a federal agent with second-degree murder in a 2008 shooting. The agent, William Clark, remains on the job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives —…
