By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James Stanley “Stan” Lemelle announced Monday that Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. has named him interim U.S. Attorney in Baton Rouge. He replaces David Dugas, a Bush appointee,who stepped down last week. “I have been an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District for 31 years,” Lemelle said in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As part of its ongoing battle against intellectual property crimes domestically and internationally, the Justice Department on Monday announced the appointment of 15 new assistant U.S. Attorneys and 20 FBI agents to address the problem that includes theft of trademarks, copyrights and industrial secrets. The Justice Department said the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of the founders of the violent Juárez drug cartel in Mexico, who had been wanted in the U.S. since 1985, was extradited to San Antonio on Friday, the El Paso Times reported. Juan Jose Quintero Payán aka Don Juan-Jo, was extradited after a long drawn out ordeal that stretched over…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Traditionally computers and emails have provided an endless treasure of info for agencies like the FBI, but new devices like smartphones and game consoles are posing challenges for the agencies. That’s what people attending the 2010 Computer Forensics Show last week in New York were told, according to the website Network…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors in El Paso want FBI agent John Thomas Shipley, who was convicted this month of dealing weapons without a license and lying to ATF agents about the sales, to forfeit 17 weapons, a silencer, ammunition and $7,340 in cash found in his home. Authorities filed a motion last week…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 23-year-old armed man who was arrested Sunday at a North Carolina airport after President Obama took off appears to be harmless and was nothing more than a “cop wannabe’, a law enforcement source told ticklethewire.com. Airport police at the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Sunday arrested Joseph Sean…
John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan in 1981, is a still a household name after all these years. He’s got more freedom these days. But when he leaves St. Elizabeths Hospital in D.C., he carries a GPS-enabled cellphone so hospital officials and the Secret Service can keep tabs on his whereabouts, the Washington Post reports….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael Ward, the new head of the FBI’s Newarks office, is getting his feet wet, getting to know his agents, quickly learning what clearly will be a big priority, the Newark Star-Legder reports. “After my first couple of briefings, I think I can safely say that corruption is an issue in…
