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![Illicit Drug Site Silk Road Has Relaunched and Pokes Fun at Federal Law Enforcement](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/250px-Silk_Road_Logo.png)
Illicit Drug Site Silk Road Has Relaunched and Pokes Fun at Federal Law Enforcement
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just a month after the FBI arrested its founder, the black market site Silk Road is back up, the Daily Caller reports. The notorious site, where people could buy drugs, guns and even hit men, relaunched Wednesday with more protections for its customers, who use a currency called Bitcoin to avoid being…
![Furious Bitcoin Users Prank FBI Following Silk Road Shutdown](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/opengraph.png)
Furious Bitcoin Users Prank FBI Following Silk Road Shutdown
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has received more than 200 complaints from pro-drug advocates after agents raided Silk Road, an online marketplace for drugs, guns and other illicit goods, the Guardian reports. While attempting to access $80 million worth of Bitcoins accumulated by Silk Road founder, the FBI seized $3.2 million worth of Bitcoins that…
![FBI Busts Alleged Mastermind Behind Underground Marketplace for Drugs Online](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/250px-Silk_Road_Logo.png)
FBI Busts Alleged Mastermind Behind Underground Marketplace for Drugs Online
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators have struggled for two years to stop an online, underground marketplace from selling more than $1 billion in cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and other illicit drugs in exchange for a virtual currency called Bitcoin, The Verge reports. But now it appears the FBI has snagged the mastermind, Ross Ulbricht, who is being…
![Ex-soldiers Plotted to kill DEA Agent, Traffic Cocaine](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cocaine.jpg)
Ex-soldiers Plotted to kill DEA Agent, Traffic Cocaine
By Selim Algar New York Post They’re real-life Rambos gone bad. A squadron of former elite military personnel from the US and Germany plotted to assassinate a DEA agent and an informant — both undercover agents – who were interfering with a cocaine distribution ring, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment released Friday. Led…
![ICE: Crackdown on Crime Makes Puerto Rico, U.S. Safer](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Puerto_Rico_map.jpg)
ICE: Crackdown on Crime Makes Puerto Rico, U.S. Safer
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. and Puerto Rico are safer today because of an anti-crime initiative aimed at putting more federal agents in Puerto Rico, Reuters reports. Dubbed “Operation Caribbean Resilience,” the effort started in July 2012 but increased markedly over the last three months, according to Reuters. In the past year, the operation has…
![FBI Agent Who Lectured Sports Teams about Drugs Dies at 67](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/20130911_dn_091113_g1mcin11o.jpg)
FBI Agent Who Lectured Sports Teams about Drugs Dies at 67
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James A. McIntosh was not just any lecturer. The 6-foot-7 FBI agent was a basketball standout at Villanova University and considered a role model for many of the younger athletes he spoke to about the evils of drugs, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. McIntosh died on June 29 after a battle with…
![Mexican Drug Cartel Activity in U.S. Said to be Exaggerated in Widely Cited Federal Report](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/drugs-seized-in-operation-xcellerator08.jpg)
Mexican Drug Cartel Activity in U.S. Said to be Exaggerated in Widely Cited Federal Report
By Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich WASHINGTON –– When Sen. John McCain spoke during an Armed Services Committee hearing last year on security issues in the Western Hemisphere, he relayed a stark warning about the spread of Mexican drug cartels in the United States. “The cartels,” the Arizona Republican said, “now maintain a…