Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When DEA agents raided a house in San Diego and found ecstasy pills in April 2012, they placed Daniel Chong in a DEA holding cell. What happened next cost the Justice Department $4.2 million in a lawsuit settlement that is expected to be announced today, the Associated Press reports. The 23-year-old, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, 71, gets out of prison today. The San Diego, eight-term Republican congressman was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in 2006 for accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors that included a luxury house and yacht. He was released early for good behavior….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has moved into a massive glass complex in Sorrento Valley, Calif. San Diego’s new headquarters opened among technology and biotech giants who have made that area popular. The $120 million complex was aimed at improving security and providing ample space for the 400 or so special agents and other staff…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com California Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the Justice Department to investigate whether the operator of a now-defunct nuclear plant in California intentionally deceived federal regulators, the Associated Press reports. A small radiation leak forced the closure of the plant between Los Angeles and San Diego in January 12, and it hasn’t operated…
By Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com A 32-year-old mother of five in suburban San Diego is dead after a Border Patrol agent shot her while riding on the hood of her car Friday, Fox News reports. Family members and authorities disagree on what happened. Local police said Valeria Alvarado, 32, was fatally shot when she ran into…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has stopped investigating team doctors for the San Diego Padres and Chargers over the handling of prescription drugs to players, the USA Today reports. The investigation was part of a wider effort to track the dispensing of potentially addictive drugs to professional baseball and football athletes, the USA Today said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agent Daphne Hearn is heading south — actually just a bit south — to head up the San Diego FBI office. Hearn, who has served as special agent in charge of the administrative division in Los Angeles, succeeds Keith Slotter, who is retiring after 25 years. Hearn, a Kansas City,…
Shoshanna Utcheniik ticklethewire.com A 24 year old University of California San Diego student was one of nine people brought in by the DEA for questioning on April 21 after a drug raid. What happened next is anyone’s guess. It seems he was forgotten in a cell for five days. DEA spokeswoman Amy Roderick told the…
