Federal authorities are reporting a steep rise in the seizure of illegal drugs as cartels adopt to new tactics during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan.
A Pittsburgh man accused of shooting an ATF agent during a raid at his home in June has been charged with assault on a federal employee and violating federal firearms laws.
Authorities found more than $680,000 the house, vehicle, and safe deposit box of a Border Patrol agent who has been charged with drug trafficking, federal court documents show.
An ATF agent was shot and hospitalized early Tuesday during a raid in a Pittsburgh neighborhood following a wiretap investigation into drug dealing.
A former police officer accused of joining the DEA so he could protect a violent Puerto Rican drug cartel has pleaded guilty ahead of a trial scheduled for this month.
Federal authorities seized more than $1 billion worth of cocaine at the Philadelphia Port, calling it the largest coke bust in the history of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the third largest in the U.S.
A Border Patrol agent is accused of paying drug traffickers $650,000 for 90 pounds of cocaine while working night shifts at a remote border crossing in southern Arizona.
Cocaine is making a comeback.
