Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is mired in internal dysfunction and turf battles and is unable to stem corruption within its ranks, according to an internal study, the TheDailyBeast.com reports. The website says the agency, which has about 60,000 employees, has been unable to control its disciplinary system or a culture…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What is a teenager doing with nearly $500,000 in meth? That’s what the Border Patrol agents want to know after a service dog sniffed out contraband in his sedan at the Pine Valley-area checkpoint in southern California, San Diego 6 reports. Agents said they found 23 packages of meth that have an…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not even 39-foot-high speed boats with 1,200 horsepower is enough for Border Patrol to hunt down all smugglers along the U.S. coast 36 miles north of Tijuana, Mexico, Fox News reports. Agents are now asking for local residents to help in the hunt. “We are actively pursuing this and we are asking…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com T.J. Bonner, who led the labor union for Border Patrol agents for two decades, is accused of defrauding the union out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, U-T San Diego reports. Bonner, known for his fearless criticism over government policy, has filed numerous pretrial motions in an attempt to get the case…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Border Patrol agent who helped his fugitive brother-in-law sneak into the U.S. from a California crossing will serve eight months in prison, Government Security News reports. While on duty at San Ysidro port of entry, Silva helped his brother-in-law, Julio Cesar Landaverde-Valdez, cross the border by entering false information…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Volunteers for a humanitarian group that provides clothing to illegal immigrants crossing the border in the winter were rescued by Border Patrol agents, KPBS reports. The rescue last week came as volunteers were climbing mountains in Arizona to provide warm clothes to the illegal immigrants when the trouble began, KPBS wrote. Their…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison on charges of stealing government property and possessing child pornography, San Diego 6 News reports. Rodolfo Zuniga, 34, was assigned to the Border Patrol’s Imperial Beach, Calif., station between November 2009 and March 2010 when feds say…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The U.S. Border Patrol is building a new station in Detroit after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $14 million contract for the design construction of the new building, the Associated Press reports. The 45,000-square-foot facility is expected to be done in spring 2015. It is to include…
