Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Something isn’t right about the death of a physical therapist who was found dead in an isolated section of Texas. CNN reports that the Justice Department is investigating the death of Alfred Wright, a ather who disappeared Nov. 7 after stopping at a liquor store to tell family members that he was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A disproportionate number of low-level drug criminals who are behind bars are African Americans sentenced under strict laws from the days of the crack epidemic. Hoping to correct that disparity, the Justice Department is encouraging defense lawyers to help identify inmates for clemency, the New York Times reports. Penalties for drug offenses…
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — Over the last half-decade or so, City Paper has done in-depth reporting about how Baltimore’s drug game is tied to heroin arriving from Africa, gangsters who double as gang interventionists, the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) gang’s broad reach in prisons and the streets, and legendary old felons getting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just a month after the FBI arrested its founder, the black market site Silk Road is back up, the Daily Caller reports. The notorious site, where people could buy drugs, guns and even hit men, relaunched Wednesday with more protections for its customers, who use a currency called Bitcoin to avoid being…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has received more than 200 complaints from pro-drug advocates after agents raided Silk Road, an online marketplace for drugs, guns and other illicit goods, the Guardian reports. While attempting to access $80 million worth of Bitcoins accumulated by Silk Road founder, the FBI seized $3.2 million worth of Bitcoins that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators have struggled for two years to stop an online, underground marketplace from selling more than $1 billion in cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and other illicit drugs in exchange for a virtual currency called Bitcoin, The Verge reports. But now it appears the FBI has snagged the mastermind, Ross Ulbricht, who is being…
By Selim Algar New York Post They’re real-life Rambos gone bad. A squadron of former elite military personnel from the US and Germany plotted to assassinate a DEA agent and an informant — both undercover agents – who were interfering with a cocaine distribution ring, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment released Friday. Led…
