Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors released video of a Border Patrol agent accused of beating a Mexican immigrant while in custody, CBS 8 in San Diego reports. The agent in the video was found not guilty by a jury last month on excessive force charges. The video shows Agent Luis Fonseca repeatedly choking and kicking…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An undocumented immigrant from Mexico pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting a Border Patrol agent with a Ford F-250 truck and smuggling illegal immigrants, Border Scope reports. Jose Alberto Izquierdo-Gonzalez , 26, is to remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not yet been set, according to Border Scope. Izquierdo-Gonzalez is accused of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol supervisor pleaded guilty to assaulting another agent in a work meeting at a field office in Port Angeles, Washington, the Peninsula Daily News reports. On Wednesday, Mauricio G. Benitez, 42, acknowledged he choked an acting field operations supervisor and pinned him against a chair, the Daily News wrote. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com During a raid, DEA agents in Texas knocked the homeowner unconscious, sent his wife into an epileptic fit and seized the children at gunpoint. There’s one small problem: It was the wrong house. That’s according to a recent lawsuit filed by Guillermo and Alejandra Ramirez, which are seeking $3 million in damages…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes in the U.S. dropped during January to June of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI’s just-released Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report. The report showed that overall, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent in that period, and property crimes dipped…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Savador man illegally living in Houston was sentenced Tuesday to 55 months in prison for assaulting a Border Patrol agent with his vehicle near Laredo, Tex. while trying to transport 10 illegal aliens, authorities said. Authorities said that on Feb. 15, 2009, at approximately 10 p.m., Border Patrol agents…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A high-ranking U.S. Marshal Service official is in trouble. The Washington Examiner reports that Sylvester E. Jones, assistant director of the Marshal service’s Witness Security Division, has been placed on leave following charges that he beat his wife in suburban Washington. The paper reports that Jones was arrested May 3 on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suburban Chicago business man, who was charged with assaulting an FBI agent, has decided to stop gambling on his fate. John Esposito, a Franklin Park businessman, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor after a jury failed to reach a verdict on Monday on felony charges, the Chicago Tribune reported….
