By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, best known internationally as “El Chapo,” was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York to life, plus 30 years to run consecutive to the life sentence. “The long road that brought ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera to a United States courtroom is…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com While six extradited Colombians have been arraigned and await trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The good news: The crackdown on methamphetamine in the U.S. is working. The bad news: Mexican drug cartels are fulfilling the demand by pumping out cheap, potent meth from so-called “superlabs,” the Associated Press reports. “These are sophisticated, high-tech operations in Mexico that are operating with extreme precision,” said Jim Shroba, a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department announced on Monday the indictment of five people in connection with the 2010 death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and a $1 million reward from the FBI for info leading to the arrest of four the defendants who remain at large. Authorities unsealed the indictment in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former leader of the Tijuana Cartel/Arellano-Felix Organization was sentenced Monday in San Diego fed court to 25 years in prison, the DEA announced. Benjamin Arellano-Felix, nearly 60, was also ordered to forfeit $100 million in criminal proceeds. “The Tijuana Cartel was one of the world’s most brutal drug trafficking networks,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Things did not go the way Gerardo Castillo-Chavez and Armado Garcia had hoped in Laredo, Texas, on Wednesday. Both men saw guilty verdicts returned on all charges against them, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced. Castillo-Chavez, a 25-year-old from Tamaulipas, Mexico, was convicted of “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled…
By Joby Warrick and and Thomas Erdbrink The Washington Post The straight-out-of-pulp-fiction plot by alleged Iranian operatives to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington was so badly bungled that investigators initially were skeptical that Iran’s government was behind it, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Officials laying out the details of the case owned up to their…
