By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Timothy Kern responded to a Craigslist ad in Ohio offering $300 a week to tend more than 680 acres of farm land. He was trying to provide for his three sons. His body was found on Friday, buried near a shopping mall in Akron, Ohio, the Associated Press reported. He was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent and a body shop owners are scheduled to testify Friday in the ongoing murder trial in federal court in Newark of ex-fed prosecutor Paul Bergrin, who once represented rap stars and drug kingpins, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. Bergin, 55, is accused of orchestrating the 2004 murder of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI isn’t giving up on finding the ever-elusive Top 10 fugitive, Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who is wanted for 19 murders. The latest: the FBI is launching what it calls a “unique new publicity campaign” by focusing on Catherine Elizabeth Greig, the longtime girlfriend of Bulger. She has not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes dropped in 2010 compared to the previous year, the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime report showed. The report, released Monday, showed a 5.5 percent decrease in reported violent crimes compared to 2009. Property crimes dropped 2.8 percent. The FBI reported that murder declined 4.4 percent ,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DNA sample that could have solved a 2001 murder by a former Seattle cop languished at the FBI lab for 3 1/2 years, the station KIRO 7 news in Seattle reported. The story unfolds like this: In 2001, realtor Mike Emert, 40, was murdered in the Seattle suburb of Woodinville…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A law enforcement bulletin is warning that Mexican drug cartel members have talked about killing U.S. law enforcement agents on the American side of the border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said Thursday that the gangsters were overheard talking about killing U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com NO ONE in Mexico appears safe from the violence that continues to strangle that country. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another was wounded Tuesday while driving through northern Mexico, the Associated Press reported. The two were assigned to the ICE attache office in Mexico City. AP…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It hardly comes as a surprise that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking a judge to sentence Chandra Levy’s killer to life in prison without parole. The Washington Post reports that the prosecutors, in asking for a life sentence, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that convicted killer…
