Jerry Capeci is regarded as an expert on the mob. His website, Gang Land News, is a subscription-based website. This article was republished with permission. By Jerry Capeci Gang Land News A federal grand jury in Brooklyn is investigating a violent gang of low level Bonanno crime family associates that is alleged to be behind…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– Two Detroit cops are accused of stealing drugs, money and property during warrantless raids and bogus arrests during a four-year crime spree that ended with their suspension and the disbandment of the city’s narcotics unit. The indictment, which was unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court, alleges that Lt. David Hansberry and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An international task force created last year to combat cyber crimes scored an early victory this week, shutting down malicious servers that had infected at least 10,000 machines, mostly in the U.S., The CBS News reports. The new Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, which is collaborative effort with the FBI, Europol and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s being billed as one of the largest crackdowns on gangs. Federal agents arrested about 1,000 accused gang members across 282 cities in the past few months, The Christian Science Monitor reports. The six-week crackdown, “Project Wildfire,” involved 239 gangs. Project Wildfire is “one of the largest operations we’ve ever conducted…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The normally anti-marijuana DEA officially recommended that the federal government triple its production of almost 900 pounds of pot for research in 2015. The proposal, endorsed by DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, is intended to provide a sufficient amount of marijuana to conduct research on the dangers and the medical benefits of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Nashville TSA agent said he became so obsessed with a woman that he took hidden videos of her in an airport bathroom and broke into her house five times. Daniel Boykin, 33, was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday, and Judge Randall Wyatt advised the former agent…
