By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI’s most wanted man in Houston has turned himself in, reports the local ABC affiliate. The bureau had posted billboards with the man’s photos just days before. Patrick Simmons is a suspect in a bank robbery where a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy was shot, according to ABC, putting him on…
By TOM FOWLER HOUSTON CHRONICLE When Mike Anderson launched the FBI’s investigation of Enron’s collapse in early December 2001, he thought assigning a couple of agents to the case would be a good start. “I knew it was going to be a big case,” said Anderson, assistant special agent in charge of the white-collar crime…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barry Walter Bojul’s trip to Yemen has been detoured, possibly by as much as 20 years in a federal prison. The 30-year-old Texan’s conviction in a Houston federal court on Monday was the culmination of an investigation that began in 2009 by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was convicted…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Those keeping score can add yet another extradition from Mexico in the fight against the violent drug trade. This time it’s Aurelio “Yayo” Cano-Flores, of the Mexican Gulf Cartel, also know as “Yankee.” Cano-Flores has been in the custody of Mexican authorities since a June 10, 2009 arrest, and was extradited…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On Monday, it appeared to be raining new special agents in charge at the FBI. The agency announced the names of four new SACs: Christopher M. Piehota for the Buffalo Division; James L. Turgal for the Phoenix Division; Stephen L. Morris for the Houston Division and David A. Ford for the…
Former FBI Agent on Drug Cartel Truce: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — America profits from the murderous ways of the Mexican cartels when it comes to supplying weapons. Washington Post reporters James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz, in a year long investigation, uncovered the names of the top 12 U.S. gun dealers of guns traced to Mexico in the past two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine people have been busted in what authorities in Houston say is DEA’s largest seizure of the narcotic PCP in its history. Authorities said it had seized 57 gallons of the drug which goes by street names including angel dust and rocket fuel. A grand jury indicted the nine people last…
