Border Patrol Finds Whopping $3M in Cash Stuffed in Car Trunk
Border Patrol agents are accustomed to finding cash or drugs packed away in vehicles.
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A Chat With A DEA Official About Detroit’s Drug Trade and the Influence of the Mexican Cartels
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Carlos L. Mitchem II knows about the drug trade. He’s been a Drug Enforcement Administration agent since 1991, and has been posted in places like Chicago and Tucson and in some of the world’s hot spots, Mexico and Colombia, where major drug cartels have flourished. More than four years…
Border Patrol Beefs Up Security After Claim That Agent Kidnapped
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A claim that a Border Patrol agent was kidnapped by a Mexican cartel has prompted the agency to increase safety in some border towns, UPI reports. As new safety measures are taken, Border Patrol officials said no agents are missing from the Rio Grande Valley sector, but they are still trying…
A Mexican Militia, Battling Michoacan Drug Cartel, Has American Roots
By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Staff Writer LA ESTACION, Mexico — Jorge Rios, 11 rifle rounds and a silver cross decorating his black flak jacket, lost his job as a dishwasher in Tucson for driving without a license. Santos Ramos Vargas, at 43 the oldest of this gang, got deported from Menlo Park, Calif., when he…
Weekend Series on Crime: The Kidnapping Tactics of the Mexican Cartel
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Mexican Drug Cartel Activity in U.S. Said to be Exaggerated in Widely Cited Federal Report
By Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich WASHINGTON –– When Sen. John McCain spoke during an Armed Services Committee hearing last year on security issues in the Western Hemisphere, he relayed a stark warning about the spread of Mexican drug cartels in the United States. “The cartels,” the Arizona Republican said, “now maintain a…
America’s Drug Appetite Helps Make Honduras One of the Most Dangerous Places on the Globe
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — I spent last week in Honduras with a couple dozen friends under the watchful and protective eye of…