By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security is taking its fight against drug smuggling to the sky. The Associated Press reports that CBP agents are using aging P-3 surveillance planes with high-tech radar to search for drug smugglers. The surveillance comes at a time when agents are finding an increasing amount of cocaine smuggling across the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Tides of troubled water are lapping Caribbean shores it seems. Federal agencies have seen a sharp increase in drug-money seizures in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands over the past year, the AP reports, “an apparent sign that more drug proceeds are flowing through the US island territory and the Caribbean…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder can’t get a break. On break from congressional hounding over ATF’s Fast and Furious program, Holder is now being criticized over an ongoing visit to the Caribbean. The Daily Beast reports that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has been sharply critical of Holder over the Fast and Furious…
It only makes sense to have a equipment that’s at least equal to what the bad guys have. By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday unveiled a prototype vessel for high-speed pursuits of smugglers ferrying people and drugs from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. The 43-foot…
