By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities, acting on info from U.S. federal investigators, shut down a yet to be completed underground tunnel on Wednesday that originated in Tijuana, Mexico and extended 860 feet into San Diego. The tunnel, measuring just under 1000 feet in length and 90 to 100 feet in depth, had lighting, ventilation…
Crooked DEA task force member, Mark James Lunsford, a Baltimore police detective, is causing some big problems. City paper reporter Van Smith lays it all out in this report. Balt. Detective’s Sykesville, Md. home the FBI raided/ baltimore city paper photo By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — On Aug. 3, Ira Jimmy Martin…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Tom Raffanello, the former head of the DEA in Miami, who most recently served as the head of security for suspected financial scammer Allen Stanford, could get a little break in his criminal case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Rosenbaum in Miami has recommended that one of the major charges against him…
Laws are designed to protect people, not harm them. In this case, it’s causing harm and unnecessary pain. The Justice Department, DEA and legislators have to figure out a way to strike a balance By Carrie Johnson Washington Post WASHINGTON — Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A DEA internal memo has identified the names of three agents who were killed in Afghanistan Monday in a helicopter crash that also claimed the lives of seven U.S. Service members. The helicopter had just taken off from a drug raid and battle with the Taliban. But there was…
A new twist on the war on drugs? Protesters say they should be able to cultivate hemp in this country. The DEA says no. By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD, Va. — You want to dig a garden, you need a shovel. You want to dig a guerrilla garden of illegal hemp on…
By Marty Ficke Security DeBrief The arrest of Richard Cramer earlier this month is very disturbing news for many reasons. Personally disturbing to me, not only because I am a former ICE Special Agent and Supervisor, but also because of the damage incidents like this have on inter-agency cooperation, and in this case, international cooperation….
Ouch. It’s rare to see someone who made it that high up in an organization like this– even after they’ve left — get indicted. BY MICHAEL SALLAH AND ROB BARRY Miami Herald MIAMI — The former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office who led the agency’s cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel…
