By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The top dog of the killer Zetas drug cartel in Mexico was captured, Tracy Wilkinson of the LA Times reports. The Times reports that Mexican naval special forces seized Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, in Nuevo Laredo, a border city across from Laredo, Texas, in the state of Tamaulipas. She…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former Border Patrol agents were sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for operating a massive human smuggling ring, the Associated Press reports. Federal District Judge John A. Houston sentenced Raul Villarreal, the ring leader, to 35 years in prison Friday; his brother Fidel Villarreal was sentenced to 30 years…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is searching for the whereabouts of a U.S. Marine reservist, his father and uncle after they were kidnapped from a ranch in Mexico last month, Reuters reports. U.S. Marine Armando Torres III, who served in Iraq, was in La Barranca, close to the southern tip of Texas, when investigators in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican man who pleaded guilty to killing a Border Patrol agent in 2010 and whose case revealed the botched “Fast and Furious” investigation is to be sentenced Sept. 10, the Associated Press reports. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes is one of five men accused of killing Agent Brian Terry, but he’s the only one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol apprehensions have increased 13% in the first six months of the fiscal year, the USA Today reports. The increase over last year, however, doesn’t mean the border is incredibly busy. In fact, the number of apprehensions – 189,172 – is still near historic lows. Does this mean the U.S. is on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A strategy to send migrants back to Mexico in areas far from where they entered isn’t working as initially planned, according to a new study that monitored the agency’s efforts, the Associated Press reports. Lateral repatriations, as the strategy is called, are used to make it tough for migrants to reconnect with…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, which has been unable to solve the mystery of family missing from Fallbrook for three years, is handing the case over to the FBI, the LA Times reports. Sheriff’s officials say they have exhausted “hundreds of tips” about what happened to Joseph and Summer McStay and…
