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Justice Department Builds Secret Database to Spy on Millions of Cars

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  A license plate tracking program established to seize cars and money to combat drug trafficking has gone far beyond its original scope and has led to the collection and storage of millions of records about motorists, Reuters reports. Not only is the database being used to track drug dealers, but state…

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DEA Agent Shot While Executing Search Warrant at Home of Suspected Drug Trafficker

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA agent is recovering after a suspect shot him in the elbow Monday morning while serving a search warrant at the home of a suspected drug dealer in South Carolina, the State reports. Shot was Special Agent Barry Wilson, who was executing a search warrant at the home of Joel…

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FBI Used Drones to Investigate Dog Fighting, Drug Trafficking, But Mum on Other Flights

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI uses controversial drone technology in the U.S. but has refused to identify how often agents deploy the unmanned planes. Motherboard.com reports that the obscurity of the drone missions has irked privacy advocates. But now, some of the missions have come to light thanks to documents obtained by MuckRock. The FBI…

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DEA Albuquerque Office Gets New Leadership Role As Assistant Special Agent in Charge

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Sean R. Waite, a longtime DEA agent, has been appointed as a new agent in charge of the agency’s Albuquerque, NM, office, the Republic reports. Waite replaces Keith Brown, who left to become the agent in charge of the DEA’s New Orleans field office last year. The office is part of the…

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FBI Helps Italian Authorities Crack Down on Suspected Mafia Members in New York

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An anti-mafia raid is targeting more than 40 people in the U.S. and Europe, CNN reports. The operation, “New Bridge,” led to the arrests of 17 people in Italy and seven in New York. They are accused of international drug-trafficking and organized crime. The operation was coordinated by the Italian national anti-mafia…

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Border Patrol to Test High-Tech Surveillance Balloons Along Mexican Border

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Forget drones. The U.S. Border Patrol is testing the abilities of helium-filled balloons that were originally used by the Department of Defense for surveillance, the Associated Press reports. Don’t be confused by the seemingly simple technology of balloons. Aerostats, as they’re called, can identify the make, model and color of a car…

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Female Prison Guards Charged in Smuggling Case with Baltimore Jail Gang

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Thirteen female guards are accused in a federal indictment of working with an inmate gang to smuggle drugs and other banned items into a Baltimore jail, the USA Today reports. Four of those women were impregnated by the leader of the gang, the . Inmates and the guards were charged with racketeering,…

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Border Patrol: Teenager Busted with about $500,000 worth of Meth

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  What is a teenager doing with nearly $500,000 in meth? That’s what the Border Patrol agents want to know after a service dog sniffed out contraband in his sedan at the Pine Valley-area checkpoint in southern California, San Diego 6 reports. Agents said they found 23 packages of meth that have an…

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