By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Arizona, which is locked in an endless battle to keep guns from going into Mexico, comes the latest. Authorities on Tuesday announced indictments in five cases resulting in charges against 34 people accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally running firearms from the United States to Mexico. Authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These days the lion’s share of news involving drug cartel violence seems to focus on Mexico. But the problem hasn’t exactly vanished in Colombia. The publication Colombia Reports wrote that the DEA has uncovered a plot to assassinate Ana Margarita Duran, head of Colombia’s drug control agency UNAIM. The report cited…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who the heck is William G. Hillar? Well, if you read his online bio you’d see that he had some darn impressive credentials in the military, had a Ph.d and he’s been raking in cash teaching, conducting workshops and giving speech. Problem is, federal authorities say, he’s a fraud. On Tuesday,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man dubbed the “Underwear Bomber” will go on trial on Oct. 4, Reuters news service reported. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds set the trial in October despite requests the suspected bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that the proceedings begin later in the year or early next year. Addulmutallab fired his court-appointed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which claimed the lives of 224 people and wounded thousands. Ghailani, 36, is the first ex-Gitmo detainee to be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former head of the Detroit Highwaymen Motorcycle club got hit with a 37 year prison sentence on Monday in U.S. District Court in downtown Detroit. Aref “Scarface” Nagi, 46, was convicted last year on a variety of charges, including conspiracy to violate federal racketeering laws and conspiracy to commit murder,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA on Tuesday released a touching photo taken last September which showed its Chief of Operations Thomas Harrigan holding a baby of Forrest Leamon, one of three DEA agents killed in a U.S. military helicopter crash on Oct. 26, 2009. The baby, Luke Leamon, was born on April…
