A DEA special agent and his wife pleaded guilty Monday to 19 charges as part of a seven-year scheme in which they diverted more than $9 million from undercover money laundering investigations and bought luxury cars, jewelry, and a home.
The FBI is joining the investigation into the attack that killed nine Mexican Americans last week near the U.S. border.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a scenario that has been played out countless times over the years. Jason McGahan of the Daily Beast reports: A top-ranking Mexican police commander who was the point person for intelligence sharing between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement has pleaded “no contest” in Chicago federal court to charges he leaked…
As the leader of the DEA in El Paso prepares to leave his job for a promotion to lead the Houston Division, he warned that heroin and meth trafficking are continuing to expand by Mexican drug cartels.
A recent example of the logical abandon of today’s backers of legal marijuana is the plan to defund the Drug Enforcement Administration’s program to eradicate illegal marijuana (DEA/CESP), an $18 million program that eliminates millions of plants a year and arrests thousands of criminals, many of whom were brought here to labor for Mexican drug cartels controlling the marijuana black market.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Michigan congresswoman is urging President Obama to dispatch the National Guard to address a growing humanitarian crisis involving tens of thousands of children illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Fox News reports. U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, a Republican, urged the president in a letter to address the overcrowding along the border. “I…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After blanket denials, Mexican officials are admitting that two Mexican soldiers – not smugglers – were in a standoff with Border Patrol agents in January, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mexico had denied soldiers were involved but finally came clean about the Jan. 26 confrontation. The soldiers claimed they were looking for drug…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Special Agent Leon Martinez, who investigated 9/11 terrorists, government corruption and drug cartels in Florida, is headed to the private sector after 25 years with the bureau, the Herald-Tribune reports. Martinez is opening a private investigative firm in Sarasota called the Executive Assessment Group, which will conduct background investigations and surveillance…
