By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The new head of the Houston DEA knows a thing or two about drug cartels. Javier Pena, whose new turf includes the Mexican border, helped hunt down the infamous Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Associated Press reports. In fact, AP reported that Pena has a photo of a Colombian…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican drug dealers are getting pretty darn imaginative when it comes to using tunnels at the border. ABC News reports that authorities found smugglers had dug more than a dozen tunnels at the border in Nogales, Az, that opened up right under a parking lot with meters. ABC reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors in Chicago are denying claims that a major Mexican cartel member had struck a deal with the DEA granting him immunity and others prosecution from immunity in exchange for information, Reuters news service reported. Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the right-hand man of Sinaloa…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sign of the ongoing hostile feelings of Mexican drug gangs toward the DEA surfaced last week. The New York Daily News reports that a Mexican drug gang spray-painted a message Friday near a school in Chihuahua, about 220 miles from the U.S. border: “Gringos (D.E.A.), We know where you are…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The cancerous violence of the Mexican drug cartels seems to be spreading into Central America where the drug networks are burrowing in, the Washington Post reports. And the presence of the cartels threatens to destabalize the countries that already face daunting crime figures, the Post reported. The Mexican cartels “are spreading…
