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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A prostitute trying to escape arrest ran her car into a Houston FBI agent, striking the agent in the left thigh, causing bruises and back pain, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court this week. The incident took place on Nov. 7 in southwest Houston. The agent was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, whose alleged scamming is in a league with the king of scammers Bernard Madoff, was granted a transfer from a private Texas jail to a federal prison after getting a major beating from a fellow inmate, Bloomberg News reports. Bloomberg reported that the transfer allows Stanford…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – About a dozen police chiefs from cities like Phoenix, Tuscon, Houston and Los Angeles plan to meet Wednesday with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to express concerns about Arizona’s new immigration law, CNN is reporting. CNN said the chiefs will voice concerns that the new law will “drive a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Saudi citizen residing in Texas was hit with a prison sentence of 4 years and 3 months in Houston on Thursday for selling counterfeit computer parts to the military in Iraq that “could have put our men and woman in uniform at risk”, said U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno. Authorities…
Guns from America are flowing into Mexico and the ATF is trying to stop it– or at least slow down the flow. It’s an uphill battle. By DANE SCHILLER Houston Chronicle HOUSTON — In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Richard C. Powers, a 19-year veteran of the FBI, and a former state prosecutor, will head up the bureau’s Houston Division Powers, who last served as assistant director of the Office of Congressional Affairs at FBI headquarters, replaces Andrew Bland, who retired, the FBI announced on Wednesday. Powers entered…
Sure the violent drug trade in Mexico is out of control and sure we care. But we have to face up to the fact that our citizens are providing guns down there and helping distribute the product up here. More things need to be done up north to help our neighbor to the south. By…
