By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The cancerous violence of the Mexican drug cartels seems to be spreading into Central America where the drug networks are burrowing in, the Washington Post reports. And the presence of the cartels threatens to destabalize the countries that already face daunting crime figures, the Post reported. The Mexican cartels “are spreading…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent, who faces Peeping Tom charges relating to an incident at a middle school in Hershey, Pa., is now also facing public drunkenness charges, the Patriot News reported. The recent troubles of Ryan James Seese, 36, of Hershey, first started in May when he was arrested for allegedly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Expect a game of musical chairs over at FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue now that the number two person John Pistole has left the agency and Timothy Murphy, the number three person, has replaced him. Nothing has been announced yet, but the rumors are circulating. Here’s one set of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Vincent H. Cohen Jr. has left private practice to return to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington as the number two person, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced Monday. Cohen, 39, a partner in the D.C. law firm Schertler & Onorato, served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has cleared New Jersey’s ex-acting U.S. Attorney and the former head of the Newark FBI of wrongdoing related to statements they made in 2009 at a press conference regarding a major public corruption indictment of more than 40 people, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired Philly FBI agent Gino L. Lazzari, who worked organized crime cases, and was beloved by colleagues and mobsters alike, died on Saturday at age 85 in a suburb of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Lazzari, who was an FBI agent for 25 years, went on after he retired to…
By Jackson Diehl Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Writer WASHINGTON — Last month, 303 people were murdered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which lies alongside El Paso. This month, the dead include three men killed by a sophisticated, remote-controlled car bomb — the first in Mexico’s drug wars. In a city of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The head of the FBI in Chicago and city’s Mayor Richard Daley got into a little tiff this past week. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Robert Grant, head of the Chicago FBI, shot back at the mayor who suggested the agency wasn’t doing enough to combat gun violence in the Windy…
