By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest sign in the U.S. that there’s a drug war in Mexico: U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico Saturday after coming under attack in south Texas along the Rio Grande, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said the incident happened during a half-ton drug bust that involved Border Patrol…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine former DEA administrators have fired off a letter to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. asking that he step in if Californians in November vote to legalize marijuana, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that the administrators wrote an Aug. 24 letter to Holder asking that he file a lawsuit challenging…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suspected member of the violent Juarez Drug Cartel in Mexico has been extradited to the states, the DEA in El Paso said. Felipe DOMINGUEZ-Vargas was extradited on Aug. 10 and made his initial appearance on drug charges in U.S. District Court in El Paso on Monday, according to Joseph M….
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com For a big-time Louisiana drug trafficker, the dog and cockfighting ring served as the ideal venue to help expand his drug ring. Pedro Mendez Ramos, of Church Point, La., who authorities described as “an avid pit bull and cock fighter”, used more than 300 gamecocks and 60 pit bulls as a…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for 28 in that office. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008″….
This is an interesting twist in the drug war. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out and how the Mexican Cartels react. Then again, this won’t put the cartels out of business. They seem to be doing fine financially. By Steve Fainaru and William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service ARCATA, Calif. —…
Confusion continues to reign over the nation’s policy on marijuana. California lawmakers want to tax the crop. The feds are against legalization. In Fresno County, Calif., federal and local agents in the past 10 days have seized more than $1 billion in marijuana crops and arrested 82 people. By Marc Benjamin The Fresno Bee The…
This is a big indictment which targets some major players. But the money is too good and the smaller fish will only step up to the plate to grab it. The question is: How do you stop that from happening? By Richard Marosi Los Angeles Times Federal authorities announced indictments Monday against the reputed leaders…
