Presidential candidate and shrewd businessman Donald Trump is asking the FBI to investigate a Twitter threat he received from an account purportedly run by escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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 With the recent volume of media on the issue of the heroin epidemic, its overdoses and deaths, has come an effort to provide an…
Mexico’s most notorious drug lord has escaped from prison again.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge has ruled that the mother of a Mexican teen killed in a cross-border shooting by a Border Patrol agent may sue the government, the Desert News reports. U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins denied the government’s motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the victim,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Forget marijuana and cocaine. The No. 1 drug entering the U.S. from the Southwest border is liquid methamphetamine, KSAT.com reports. “The Mexican cartels have figured out a very effective way to massively produce very low cost, inexpensive methamphetamine year-round,” said Wendell Campbell, spokesperson for the DEA’s Houston division. One reason it…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A year after a surge in illegal immigrant children and their families trying to cross the U.S. border, illegal immigration is on pace to be the lowest this year than any year since 1972, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday, the Washington Times reports. Johnson stopped short of saying whether…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is a Mexican boy shot in his home country protected by the U.S. Constitution? The question is at the center of a lawsuit filed by the family of a Mexican teenager who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent near Nogales, Sonora, in 2012, the Associated Press reports. …
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Thomas A. Constantine, the former tough-talking chief of the DEA, died May 3 at a hospice in Pinehurst, N.C., the Washington Post reports. He was 76. Constantine. who died after getting a staph infection, was chosen as the head of the DEA by President Bill Clinton in 1994 after the former…
