By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA and Guatemala authorities on Wednesday nabbed Guatemala’s reputed top drug trafficker who was wanted on cocaine charges in Florida, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Juan Ortiz Lopez and two other suspects were arrested at a house in the western city of Quetzaltenango. Guatemala’s Minister Carlos Menocal said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com A high-profile Boston attorney who has represented mobsters and some big name clients was charged Wednesday with money laundering that included taking payments from an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug dealer from the Dominican Republic. Authorities charged that attorney Robert A. George, 56, of Westwood, Mass., helped conceal $225,000…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man once accused of stabbing Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to 30 years in prison for attempting to kill a DEA informant, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Trevor A. Watson, 44, of Boston, was found guilty in December in U.S. District Court in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — One of the reasons David Simons’ critically acclaimed HBO show “The Wire” was so realistic was because it had folks like Felicia “Snoop” Pearson — who murdered someone in real life– playing the role of a tom-boy, drug assassin. On Thursday, Pearson –who according to the Washington Post’s Reliable…
By Justin Blum Bloomberg Derek Williams was working as a trash-truck driver when his cousin told him about K2, a product made from plant materials and chemicals that provided a legal, marijuana-like high. Williams saw his ticket out of the residential rubbish business: Make a better blend. He studied compounds that mimic the effects of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents have been conducting raids in U.S. cities and targeting Mexican cartel members in response to last week’s murder of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico, the Associated Press reported. Another ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. was shot and wounded. “We are taking a stand and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA sting resulted in authorities charging a group of people with plotting to move large shipments of drugs and weapons for the Taliban, authorities announced Monday. In court documents unsealed in New York, authorities charged seven people with conspiring to provide “various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA and Treasury Department on Thursday accused the Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL and its subsidiaries (LCB) of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug profits by an organization linked to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah. In its announcement, authorities designated the bank as a “primary money laundering concern.”…
