Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Sometimes being a ‘friend of Israel’ means sharing criminals. Three Israeli mobsters were extradited to the U.S. in January 2011 in the first extradition of its kind under Israel’s racketeering law, which parallels RICO, the U.S. law targeting organized crime. Two of the three pled guilty to a host of drug and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Incidents like this remind us of the dangers of being in law enforcement. Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot and wounded Thursday morning around 4 a.m. while executing a search warrant in Petaluma, outside of San Francisco, reported KABC. The agents suffered non-life threatening wounds, the station reported. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former high ranking official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement pleaded guilty Tuesday in D.C. to defrauding the government out of more than $180,000 in a scheme that involved other employees and fraudulent travel vouchers, time and attendance slips and kickbacks. James Woosley, the former Acting Director of Intelligence for ICE,…
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 It’s payday, thanks to a Mexican drug cartel. The bulk of $29.5 million in money seized by federal authorities from a Mexican cartel boss has been handed out in “asset sharing” funds by ICE, DEA, FBI and other federal agencies to law enforcement agencies across the state of Texas to combat…
Update: 12 p.m. Friday: The Los Angeles Times reported that all three ICE agents were supervisors, but the gunman was lower ranking. KTLA TV reported that the gunman opened fire during his disciplinary hearing. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One ICE agent was killed and another wounded in a bizarre shootout among agents at a…
By Nick Miroff and William Booth Washington Post. MEXICO CITY — When U.S. special agent Jaime Zapata was shot dead one year ago on a notorious stretch of highway in central Mexico, he was driving a $160,000 armored Chevy Suburban, built to exacting government standards, designed to defeat high-velocity gunfire, fragmentation grenades and land mines….
