By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A lot less marijuana was seized this fiscal year by the U.S. Border Patrol in San Diego, but the agency has seen a sizable increase in the amount of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin confiscated, KPBS reports. Leaders at the San Diego sector said the seizures represent a tighter security. “I am…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Christopher Andrew Gibson is accused of robbing a bank while still wearing the clothes he had on when he was released from jail earlier in the day, NBC 7 San Diego reports. Surveillance video shows Gibson wearing the same button-up shirt he was wearing when he was released from George Bailey…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agent Eric S. Birnbaum, a 26-year-veteran of the bureau, will take over San Diego’s field office. The Times of San Diego reports that Birnbaum has been named to succeed Daphne Hearn, who retired in August. Birnbaum has a bachelor’s degree in math from Miami University in Ohio and a doctorate…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A California Congressman is claiming ISIS fighters trying to get into the U.S. were busted at the Texas border with Mexico, Fox News reports. “ISIS is coming across the southern border,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, whose district includes much of San Diego. “They aren’t flying B-1 Bombers bombing American cities,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A plan to modernize Border Patrol’s busiest facility includes $500,000 for new art in San Diego, the Weekly Standard reports. The San Ysidro Land Port of entry, which handles traffic between San Diego and the Tijuana region, is undergoing $735 million in upgrades. The artwork is part of the third phase…
By Ryan Reilly Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The leadership of the Drug Enforcement Administration comes under fire in a report issued by the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General on the near-death of a college student left in a holding cell for five days. The review finds that DEA leadership “violated Department of Justice…
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 ticklethewire.com While six extradited Colombians have been arraigned and await trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol’s plan to alleviate the surge of Central American immigrants along the border of Mexico no longer involves flying children and families to San Diego, the USA Today reports. The federal agency halted the experiment following a protest that blocked busloads of immigrants from reaching a processing facility in San Diego….
