By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The bust was so big that federal authorities are already calling it the largest seizure of heroin in New York City history. The DEA helped nab a pair of suspected Bronx drug traffickers in what turned out to be the largest seizure of heroin in the city’s history, NBC New York…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Buffalo Police feel duped after hiring an officer who was accused of overseeing a major marijuana grow operation and had worked as an FBI informant before his hire, the Buffalo News reports. Jorge Melendez became an FBI informant in New York after a wire tap caught him talking to drug dealers, police…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details of Thursdays’ massive drug bust reveal an ongoing game of whack-a-mole between the DEA and drug smugglers working the commercial airline systems. In this recent bust the DEA and FBI, in concert with Puerto Rican and local authorities, disabled two rings trafficking cocaine into the U.S., primarily through Puerto Rico Muniz…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An Inspector General report released Tuesday concludes that the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), opened by the DEA in 1974 to identify drug dealers south of the border is pretty much a bust, the website Spy Talk reports. Spy Talk’s Jeff Stein reports that the 86-page report “was a…
