Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona gets his way, unmanned drones will be patrolling Maricopa County in search of drug dealers and other scofflaws, News 92 FM reports. Arpaio, who is a lightening rod on immigration issues, said the idea is to help Border Patrol locate undocumented immigrants and drug dealers….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the top drug dealers on the illicit website Silk Road became an informant after he was busted selling drugs, The Smoking Gun reports. Steven Sadler, known as “Nod” on Silk Road, sold high-quality heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, feds say. TSG reported that he was busted July 31 and “began cooperating,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of the ATF’s St, Paul Field Division acknowledged mistakes were made during a botched undercover sting operation of gun and drug dealers at a store in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Journal Sentinel recently exposed serious problems during a 10-month ATF sting. Among them: the theft of nearly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican drug dealers are getting pretty darn imaginative when it comes to using tunnels at the border. ABC News reports that authorities found smugglers had dug more than a dozen tunnels at the border in Nogales, Az, that opened up right under a parking lot with meters. ABC reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Undercover ATF agents learned how easy it is to get someone to rob a drug dealer during a sting they pulled off in Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reports that agents were able to get complete strangers to agree to help rob dope dealers. In the end, agents arrested 70 people. “This…
U.S. federal agents are recruiting Mexican drug traffickers as informants. That may be a nice break through in the battle against the violent activity, but it’s causing friction with local law enforcement, which is often left in the dark. That’s the situation with Jose Daniel Gonzalez, a drug trafficker who was living in El Paso….
By Suzanne Smalley NEWSWEEK The image of a drug dealer driving a Mercedes is a Hollywood favorite, so maybe it’s not surprising that the African-American preacher, speaking on a panel about how to shut down urban drug markets, went for the cliché. It’s hard to get the dealers off the corners and into straight jobs,…
