Border Patrol Opened Fire Along Mexican Border After Spotting Drug Smugglers

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with a suspected smuggler on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, the San Antonio Express-News reports. “Our agents are not going to tolerate this,” Border Patrol spokesman Henry Mendiola said Tuesday. “They’re well-trained, they’re well equipped, and they will respond to neutralize these threats.” The Friday shooting…

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Philly FBI Boss George C. Venizoles to Take Over New York Office

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  George C. Venizelos, head of the FBI’s Philadelphia division, will be named assistant director in charge of the bureau’s New York field office, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, citing anonymous sources knowledgeable of the move. A New Jersey native, the 52-year-old served as interim assistant director in charge of the New York office…

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Ex-Border Patrol Officer Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Sexually Assaulting Mexican Woman

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  A former U.S. Border Patrol officer was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday after admitting he sexually assaulted a Mexican woman traveling in the U.S., the Desert Sun reports. Luis Edward Hermosillo was sentenced immediately after he pleaded guilty in Riverside County Superior Court to sexual penetration by threatening to use…

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