Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Things got hot in Puerto Rico Thursday for two criminal organizations busted for massive-scale narcotics trafficking. Thirty-six arrests were made in a major bust, culminating a collaboration between the DEA, the Puerto Rico PD, FBI, and San Juan Municipal Police. It was all part of an effort to disable two criminal organizations…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Some DEA agents in the Caribbean are not too happy with the way things are. Ten Puerto Rican agents filed suit against the agency claiming they receive less pay and riskier assignments than agents sent to the island from the mainland, the Huffington Post reports. Attorney Bamily Lopez Ortiz said on Monday…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Big goings on in Puerto Rico. Fifty people have been charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Puerto Rico with conspiracy to commit ID fraud as part of their alleged roles in an ID trafficking scheme. The charges were announced by leaders from the Justice Department, ICE, Homeland Securities Investigations, the…
By The Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An FBI agent who tried to rescue a swimmer in distress has drowned at a beach in northeast Puerto Rico, authorities said Friday. Daniel Knapp, a 43-year-old agent who was based in San Juan, drowned on Thursday at Hidden Beach in the coastal city of Fajardo,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Tides of troubled water are lapping Caribbean shores it seems. Federal agencies have seen a sharp increase in drug-money seizures in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands over the past year, the AP reports, “an apparent sign that more drug proceeds are flowing through the US island territory and the Caribbean…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fifty-six law enforcement officers in 22 states and Puerto Rico were “feloniously killed” in 2010, up from 48 the year before, the FBI reported. The annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report released Monday also showed more than 53,000 officers were assaulted in 2010. An FBI press release summed up…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is coming down hard on the Puerto Rico Police Department — the nation’s second largest — accusing it of “profound” and “longstanding” civil rights violations and illegal practices, reports the New York Times. The Puerto Rico Police Department is “using force, including deadly force, when no force…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Think of anything you’re not supposed to bring on an airplane — short of a gun. Now think of Jose Pol. Authorities charged that Pol tried to take a stun gun, four box cutter knives, pepper spray and a switch blade on a JetBlue flight from Puerto Rico to Boston on…
