By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now of days, you can see almost any movie — be it new or old — without going out to the the theater or renting a video– and all for free. Unfortunately, the whole set up is illegal. On Wednesday, federal authorities clamped down and disabled nine websites that allowed people…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent pleaded guilty Wednesday in Newark to conspiring to steal what he thought was a large quantity of cocaine from a purported drug dealer. It turned out to be a sting conducted by ICE. Valentino Johnson, 26, of Brooklyn, who was working as an ICE…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as ICE has an image problem. So ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton plans to “re-brand”, realign its duties and emphasize criminal investigations over immigrant deportations, the Washington Post is reporting. “By streamlining and renaming several offices, officials hope to highlight the agency’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court of taking a series of bribes from immigrants seeking documentation to remain in the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 39, of Alta Loma, Calif. was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An international manhunt resulted in the capture late last week of Jorge Torres-Puello aka Jorge Torres Orellana, who posed as an attorney for the Idaho church missionaries, who were detained in Haiti on kidnapping and abduction charges. He was wanted in El Salvador, the U.S. and Canada for crimes against children,…
Udate: Thursday 11:40 a.m. — The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Ex-Cop Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty this morning to misprision of a felony (a charge for concealing a known felony), for failing to report a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the investigation of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans. To read press…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An Orange County, Calif. man has been charged with running a massive visa fraud scheme that involved taking exams for students from counties like Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar so they could maintain their lawful immigration status, authorities said Monday. Eamon Daniel Higgins, 46, of Laguna…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities, acting on info from U.S. federal investigators, shut down a yet to be completed underground tunnel on Wednesday that originated in Tijuana, Mexico and extended 860 feet into San Diego. The tunnel, measuring just under 1000 feet in length and 90 to 100 feet in depth, had lighting, ventilation…
