Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com What first looks like a routine drug bust seems to have evolved into international arms smuggling charges. The FBI is alleging that Taiwanese nationals Hui Sheng-shen, 45, and Huan Ling-chang, 41, known as “Charlie” and “Alice”, were trying to acquire military spy drones, E-2C Hawkeye surveillance airplanes and stealth technology relating to…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com This time it was drugs slipping through security for a few thousand in bribes. Next time? Who knows? One federal prosecutor noted that next time it could be dangerous materials. The L.A. Times reports that the DEA has busted four former and current TSA agents at LAX. They allegedly accepted cash to…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It’s all fun and games til your toy purchases may be supporting international drug cartels. An 18-month investigation of L.A.company, Woody’s Toys Inc., by Homeland Security’s ICE and the DEA’s Southern California Drug Task Force yielded video of employees receiving bricks of cash in fast food chain parking lots, among other incriminating…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com What’s wrong with this picture? El Paso, Texas, County Commissioner Guillermo Gandara Jr., who publicly had taken a hardline against drugs, was arrested by the DEA on drug trafficking charges, UPI reported. The arrest, part of a multi-agency investigation, took place late Wednesday, DEA spokeswoman Diana Apodaca confirmed to the El…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com More than 900 law enforcement officers and agents followed through on arrests and search warrants in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, according to a press release, as part of a large-scale takedown of a narcotics trafficking ring. Local, state and federal officers, including an FBI SWAT team, made 27…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent has pleaded guilty to leaking information to relatives involved in drug trafficking, authorities said. Jovana Deas, 33, of Rio Rico, Ariz., pleaded guilty to all 21 counts against her, the FBI said in a statement on Monday. Deas was…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Four members of the Bonanno organized crime family were arrested early Friday in New York by DEA and FBI agents on charges of racketeering, gambling and drug sales, reports NBC. Also charged in the case was Anthony Graziano, the father of Mob Wives” reality show star Renee Graziano . Vincent Badalamenti,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A DEA bust has led to the arrest of a local firefighter in Albuquerque, reports KQRE. Acquaintances of firefighter Steve Chavez said he was the last guy they’d expect to be involved in a drug ring. Chavez had been with the department for seven years, according to KQRE. The drug ring…
