By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After earning more than $9 million over the course of 15 years as one of the government’s highest paid informants in history, Carlos Sagastume unveiled his identity at the New York trial of international arms dealer Viktor Bout, reports the Associated Press. Bout’s month-long trial ended in a Manhattan federal court…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A major drug bust in Arizona targeted folks linked to a Mexican cartel believed to handle 65 percent of all drugs illegally transported to the United States, and resulted in the seizure of thousands of pounds of narcotics and at least 70 arrests, reports Reuters. The raids, overseen by the DEA, Arizona…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Last week, after the students had left a rural Pennsylvania school about 70 miles west of Scranton, DEA administrators and colleagues gathered there to remember a fallen agent, an alma mater of Hughesville High School, according to the Sun Gazette. Chad Michael, 30, assigned to the DEA Miami Division, was one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Connecticut man has been busted for posing as a DEA agent selling confiscated property. Local authorities alleged that Jeffrey Guadalupe, 30, of Red Oak, Conn., with posing as an agent and scamming a Bridgeport, Conn. city employee and his elderly mother out of $20,000, according to the Connecticut Post. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ad stripped across the bottom of USA Today’s Money section on Monday read: “Got Drugs? Turn in your unused or expired medication for safe disposal Saturday, October 29th.” The ad, an apparent play on the popular ad campaign “Got Milk?”, also appears on the top of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Manhattan doctor has been supplying street gangs with the powerful painkiller Oxycodone for street sale, authorities say. Dr. Felix Rodriguez was arrested when DEA agents and deputy U.S. Marshals raided his offices Wednesday morning , reports NBC New York. The internal medicine doctor wrote hundreds of prescriptions for gang members…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A top lieutenant to a Colombian drug kingpin was convicted in a Manhattan court this week of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and heroine, according to a Justice Department press release. Jose Mosquera-Prado, 36, was a top lieutenant in Francisco Gonzalez Uribe’s international narcotics-trafficking organization, says the Justice Department, and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Difficulties seem to be sprouting up like weeds as local governments across the country experiment with new laws and regulations concerning medical marijuana; the drug is still illegal and listed as a controlled substance by the federal government. A top federal law enforcement official in Oregan has declared that medical growers…
