By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacks coordination and is not doing nearly enough to crack down on the fraud involved in the distribution and sales of tobacco that amounts to more $5 billion in lost U.S. taxes a year and is sometimes linked to terrorism…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Undercover ATF agents learned how easy it is to get someone to rob a drug dealer during a sting they pulled off in Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reports that agents were able to get complete strangers to agree to help rob dope dealers. In the end, agents arrested 70 people. “This…
As Rodney King once said: “Can we all get along?” There has been a tradition of tension between the FBI and ATF. In Washington alone, there have been high-profile cases in which agents have from both agencies have had their differences. This report will only validate what’s already been reported, including a May 2008 report…
The drug war in Mexico is deadly enough, and hand grenades have made it even deadlier. Will we start seeing drug traffickers use handgrenades in the U.S.? By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press Writer PHOENIX — It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico’s bloody drug war tossed into…
This certainly won’t put an end to the drug violence, but any bust that possibly involves the Mexican drug cartels is good. By Ruben Vives Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Four men were taken into federal custody this morning after a raid on a gun-trafficking ring that may be tied to a Mexican drug…
Guns from America are flowing into Mexico and the ATF is trying to stop it– or at least slow down the flow. It’s an uphill battle. By DANE SCHILLER Houston Chronicle HOUSTON — In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a…
Most law enforcement agents and officers are faced with the dilemma at some point or another: pull out the gun and fight it out or call for back up and follow the suspects. ATF Agent Bill Crummett had to make that decision. By Clarence Williams Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Bill Crummett had just…
Federal law enforcement has come a long way. Here’s some proof. By Tricia Bishop Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — When Ava Cooper-Davis took over the Washington division of the Drug Enforcement Administration in March, she became the fourth woman in the region to head a federal law enforcement agency’s field office, alongside the “special agents in…
