By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Congressman André Carson from Indiana hopes history repeats itself. The Congressman has introduced a bill to name ATF headquarters at 99 New York Avenue NE in Washington as the Ariel Rios Federal Building. ATF agent Rios, 28, was murdered by drug traffickers in Miami in 1982 while assigned to then Vice President George Bush’s…
Drug traffickers are hacking Border Patrol drones along the U.S.-Mexico border to confuse federal investigators.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former governor of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico has been indicted on charges that he allowed large-scale drug rings to operate in exchange for large bribes from drug traffickers, the FBI announced Monday. Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 56 was charged with the RICO statute and several conspiracy charges. Ruvalcaba, who served as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former U.S. Army snipers and a retired sharpshooter planned to assassinate a DEA agent and an informant in Africa, the Justice Department announced, reports the USA Today. The murders-for-hire were part of a bold plan to fly hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to the U.S., the federal government alleges….
By Jim Popkin WIRED The clatter of helicopter blades echoed across the jungles of northwestern Ecuador. Antinarcotics commandos in three choppers peered at the mangroves below, scanning for any sign of activity. The police had received a tip that a gang of Colombian drug smugglers had set up a clandestine work site here, in a…
