By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA on Thursday announced the arrests of 1,985 persons as part of a 20-month crackdown on the La Familia Michoacana Mexican drug cartel’s operations in the U.S. DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said authorities said the crackdown, known as “Project Delirium”, also seized $62 million in U.S. currency, plus approximately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A law enforcement bulletin is warning that Mexican drug cartel members have talked about killing U.S. law enforcement agents on the American side of the border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said Thursday that the gangsters were overheard talking about killing U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The unusual circumstances warranted this headline in the Providence Journal on Wednesday: “U.S. Prosecutors Left in the Cold on Drug Bust.” The paper reported that when state police and DEA agents in Providence, R.I., last week announced the seizure of 145 pounds of cocaine, $1.2 million in cash and the arrest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities in San Diego charged a high-ranking Mexican law enforcement official and 42 others as part of a crackdown on a major Mexican drug cartel — the Fernando Sanchez Organization — that allegedly was involved in murders and kidnappings, the San Diego Tribune reported. The Mexican official, Jesus Quinonez Marquez,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It could have been a major disaster. The Houston Chronicle reports that authorities were scrambling last month to deal with a suspected plot by a Mexican drug cartel to blow up the 5-mile-long Falcon dam along the Texas border that would have endangered millions of peopole. The paper reports that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of the founders of the violent Juárez drug cartel in Mexico, who had been wanted in the U.S. since 1985, was extradited to San Antonio on Friday, the El Paso Times reported. Juan Jose Quintero Payán aka Don Juan-Jo, was extradited after a long drawn out ordeal that stretched over…
