By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Philadelphia DEA is drumming up some cash to help the family of agent Joe Piersante, a member of the DEA Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST) who was seriously wounded in Afghanistan while on a mission last Fall. The Philly DEA is selling t-shirts and plans a fundraising event –Beef and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious just looks worse all the time. The latest: Fox News reports that the former head of the DEA in Tucson said some agents in other federal agencies tried unsuccessfully to put an end to the operation. Tony Coulson said many federal field agents knew the ATF…
By Will Grant BBC News, Guadalajara Twenty seven years ago, the kidnap, torture and murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent by Mexican drug traffickers sparked one of the biggest manhunts the US government has ever launched in North America. It also offered an ominous warning of things to come. The picturesque Mexican city…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Some DEA agents in the Caribbean are not too happy with the way things are. Ten Puerto Rican agents filed suit against the agency claiming they receive less pay and riskier assignments than agents sent to the island from the mainland, the Huffington Post reports. Attorney Bamily Lopez Ortiz said on Monday…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Known in recent years for the young artists that have taken over abandoned parts of the hulking structure, Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center was raided at 10 a.m. on Friday as a part of a federal investigation into illegal marijuana production, the Detroit News reports. Four people were arrested at the building…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Former DEA chief of operations Michael Braun told members of a House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday that the reach of influence of Hezbollah, the Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group based in Lebanon, has reached the US-Mexico border, reports CNS News. Hezbollah developed relationships with Mexican drug cartels to “move their…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com One moment you’re driving down a New York state Thruway and the next you’re in prison facing drug charges in connection with violent Mexican drug cartel. Texas residents Ruby Irene Maxwell, Mary Ann Selgado and Matthew Octavious Sandoval were arrested after their vehicle was searched on a state thruway and police…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A three-month-long DEA operation ended with federal drug and firearm charges filed against 31 people, CBS reports. The charges were made in the Texas towns of Midland and Odessa by the DEA’s Mobile Enforcement Team. Most defendants were arrested Thursday morning or were already in custody, according to CBS. The charges…
