Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cory B. Nelson, Special Agent in Charge of Chicago’s FBI Office, is leaving his post after just seven month to take a job in the private sector, the Chicago Sun Times reports. The 51-year-old notified the bureau Wednesday that he was leaving for a job with insurance and banking firm USAA in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A San Antonio Police officer faces federal charges after his own department arrested him on accusations of planting false evidence and demanding cash from a crime victim, KHOU.com reports. The joint sting operation by the police department and FBI led to Officer Curtis W. Lundy’s arrest Thursday . The incident happened on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former head of the FBI office in San Antonio has been named special agent in charge of the Chicago office, the Chicago Tribune reports. The FBI is expected to announce the appointment of Cory B. Nelson this week. Nelson will replace retiring Robert Grant, who headed the Chicago office for 7…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The powerful Zetas drug cartel took another blow in San Antonio, Tex., says a report from local KENS5.com. A DEA bust recovered high quality cocaine and millions of dollared allegedly linked to the Zetas, the station reported. Authorities claimed the bust crippled a powerful drug operation in San Antonio ….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents have been conducting raids in U.S. cities and targeting Mexican cartel members in response to last week’s murder of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico, the Associated Press reported. Another ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. was shot and wounded. “We are taking a stand and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Frank Montoya, Jr., the section chief for the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters, who worked on the Oklahoma bombing and Robert Hanssen spy case, has been named head of the bureau’s Honolulu Division. Montoya joined the FBI in 1991 and was first stationed in the San Antonio Field Office,…
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…
