By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI swooped into Crystal City, Texas, and arrested nearly all of the top city officials.
The Washington Post reports that five officials were arrested Thursday and accused of taking bribes and helping an illegal gambling operation.
The indictment led to the arrests of the city’s mayor, mayor pro tempore, a current and former city council member and the city manager.
Also arrested the the alleged gambling operator, Ngoc Tri Nguyen, also known as “MR. T.”
And that’s not it for the embattled city. Another council member was arrested on human smuggling charges last month.
There’s only one city official left – Councilman Joel Barajas, who suspected something criminal was going on.
“I knew some things were not being correctly taken care of,” he said.
The indictment alleges town leadership “used their official positions to enrich themselves by soliciting and accepting payments and other things of value” from Nguyen and others.
