By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Racial profiling might seem lucrative, but the cost of doing business will eventually catch up. A Florida police officer who was arrested for stealing cash from Hispanics he pulled over was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, reports the Miami Herald. Mark Ott’s sentence comes eight months after a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Pennsylvania dentist had his home raided Friday night after being accused of threatening the life of an FBI agent, reports WPXI. Anthony Dinozzi lost his license to practice dentistry after being convicted on drug charges in Ohio in 2002, according to WPXI. The newer criminal complaint alleges that Dinozzi…
This story as told by Edmund Skrodzki, ex-Secret Service and current executive director of campus safety and security at The Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. Baltimore Magazine There’s never a typical day with the Secret Service. One day you can be doing an investigation, and the next day they send you out to be…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The third and final defendant in a DEA operation targeting three Colombian drug runners tied to a Colombian drug cartel has been sentenced in Seattle, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hector Fabio Zapata was slapped with 30 years in prison on Monday, the last to face sentencing in the cocaine-trafficking probe. Like…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The U.S. Postal Service is grateful people can’t email everything. But this certainly wasn’t what it had in mind. A Minnesota woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday for mailing threats to Vice President Joe Biden, an FBI agent and others over the past two decades, reports the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal authorities have arrested an Islamic extremist, but Adam Martin at the Atlantic Wire is skeptical. Kosovo-born Sami Osmakac is being charged with plotting to bomb Tampa, Fla.-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office to “avenge wrongs done to Muslims,” according to the AP. But Martin is quite ready to pat the…
