By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors in Chicago are denying claims that a major Mexican cartel member had struck a deal with the DEA granting him immunity and others prosecution from immunity in exchange for information, Reuters news service reported. Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the right-hand man of Sinaloa…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DEA Public Affairs Specialist David Ausiello is making a switch. Ausiello has been named Assistant Director for Communication and Law Enforcement Coordination at the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys. “Staying in the DOJ family…but moving up, over, and out,” Ausiello said in an email to members of the media on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite the president’s promise to place science above politics, the DEA issued a final order rejecting a license for a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor to grow marijuana for federally regulated research. Just over a decade ago, in June of 2001, Professor Lyle Craker, 70, applied for the license in an…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Those keeping score can add yet another extradition from Mexico in the fight against the violent drug trade. This time it’s Aurelio “Yayo” Cano-Flores, of the Mexican Gulf Cartel, also know as “Yankee.” Cano-Flores has been in the custody of Mexican authorities since a June 10, 2009 arrest, and was extradited…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not everyone in Mexico is happy with America helping the Mexicans battle the drug cartels. Prominent Mexican poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia wants the Mexican government to explain the reported presence of CIA and DEA agents in Mexico, Fox News Latino reported. Fox News reported that Sicilia made the demand…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA on Thursday announced the arrests of 1,985 persons as part of a 20-month crackdown on the La Familia Michoacana Mexican drug cartel’s operations in the U.S. DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said authorities said the crackdown, known as “Project Delirium”, also seized $62 million in U.S. currency, plus approximately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sign of the ongoing hostile feelings of Mexican drug gangs toward the DEA surfaced last week. The New York Daily News reports that a Mexican drug gang spray-painted a message Friday near a school in Chihuahua, about 220 miles from the U.S. border: “Gringos (D.E.A.), We know where you are…
