The Trump administration has produced a classified Justice Department opinion that authorizes lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to several people familiar with the document.
Federal agents and Mexican authorities discovered a large and “sophisticated” tunnel near the U.S.-Mexico border that was outfitted with electricity, ventilation , a rail system with a cart and an electronic hoist, ICE announced earlier this month.
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.
Federal authorities are reporting a steep rise in the seizure of illegal drugs as cartels adopt to new tactics during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan.
A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting he helped drug traffickers cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The FBI is joining the investigation into the attack that killed nine Mexican Americans last week near the U.S. border.
A now-retired DEA agent is accused of accepting $250,000 in bribes to protect drug traffickers that he believed had ties to “Italian organized crime.”
A former supervisory special agent for the DEA in Nogales, Ariz., faces up to five years in prison for illegally selling firearms, including to suspected drug traffickers.
