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Border Remains Open Despite Border Patrol’s Best Efforts
Bob Casimiro of Bridgton is former executive director of Massachusetts Citizens for Immigration Reform. By Bob Casimiro Bangor Daily News. It’s a cat-and-mouse game, and the mouse is still winning. In spite of the best efforts of our Border Patrol agents, drugs and humans keep coming across our border with Mexico. I recently returned from my…
Bloomberg: Time to Put ATF Out of Its Misery, Consider Folding into FBI
By Bloomberg Editorial Board Many members of Congress seem to view the U.S.’s most deadly criminals — those who carry guns — as a protected class. For decades, they’ve tried everything imaginable to cripple the agency charged with enforcing federal laws against illegal gun buying, trafficking and possession. Meanwhile, advocates of stricter gun-law enforcement have fought…
A Ranking Agent and A Telecommunication Specialist for DEA Charged in Connection With Strip Club That Hired Illegal Aliens and Had Prostitution
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A high-ranking DEA agent, who retired last month, and a telecommunications specialist for the agency were arrested on charges they flouted their duties by running a lucrative strip club in New Jersey where prostitution was captured on security video, the Associated Press reported. AP reports that court papers in New York…
Suspected Terrorist Accused of Threatening to Kill FBI Agents
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of the 7 Minnesota men charged with trying to join ISIS in Syria is accused of threatening to kill FBI agents,WCCO in Minneapolis reports. The station reports that the suspect, Mohamed Farah, said to a government informant who was recording the conversation: “If our backs are against the wall, I’m…
FBI: Private Prison Staff in Idaho Is Incompetent, Not Criminal
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI investigation into a private prison in Idaho uncovered no criminal wrongdoing, but agents did find plenty of incompetence among the staff, the Associated Press reports. Investigators also found that state and federal officials failed to properly communicate and monitor prison activities. Following a 15-month public corruption investigation, the Justice…
Man Convinces Jury He Was Drunk, Not Intent on Assaulting Border Patrol Agent
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Shawn Miguel acknowledged he hit a parked Border Patrol truck with his mom’s pickup truck, narrowly missing an agent. But the 36-year-old’s attorney was able to convince a jury that his client struck the Border Patrol truck because he was drunk, not because he was trying to assault an agent, the…
1 of FBI’s Most Wanted Criminals Was Hiding Along Appalachin Trail
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s most wanted criminals often spent time along the Appalachian Trail, befriended hikers and traveled with a woman whom he called his wife, the Dispatch reports. A hiker who met a bedraggled, friendly man along the trail last year was watching “American Greed” several months ago when the…