A New Haven man accused of crashing a minivan into a car carrying DEA special agents was indicted on charges of distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Don’t let his code name with the FBI fool you. Informant “Mellow,” as he’s code-named by the bureau, is anything but mellow. MassLive.com reports that David Rodriguez, a former Latin Kings ember, helped target 24 suspected drug and gun dealers for the FBI in the less than a year in Massachusetts. Rodriguez…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An armed 36-year-old Jacksonville man climbed over the fence at the FBI’s Jacksonville office and demanded to speak with agents about someone following him, News 4 Jax reports. Avery McNight Jr. was quickly stopped by a security guard who also was armed and demanded the man drop his weapon. McNight followed directions…
Correction: The story originally said the FBI instead of the DEA. Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA supplied a drug addict with crack cocaine in exchange for his help in an undercover drug investigation in Las Vegas, he claims in a lawsuit filed against the feds, the Associated Press reports. Aaron Romero, 38, claims his previous…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent in South Florida has been arrested on felony charges of manufacturing and selling drugs from her home, South Florida 6 reports. During a search of Latwana Daniels’ home, authorities said they found 111 grams of cocaine and 39 grams of marijuana. They also found scales and materials to make…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine people were in indicted on Friday in a suspected narcotics ring near Rochester, N.Y., ABC reports. Between 2008 and 2012, authorities from local police precincts and the ATF say, the indicted used rental properties to distribute 280 grams of crack and five kilograms of cocaine. They also face weapons charges,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Wednesday revisited a controversial subject Congress remedied last year by changing the disproportionate sentences between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine. Lawmakers stopped short of making the law retroactive. Enter Holder. Holder appeared before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and urged that the law be…
D.C.’s former Mayor Marion Barry, currently a city council member, has had his share of brushes with federal law enforcement. As you recall in 1990 he was busted in an FBI sting smoking crack in a D.C. hotel room. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges relating to failure to file and pay taxes….
