By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two security screeners at San Francisco International Airport have been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for allowing smugglers to carry methamphetamine through an airport checkpoint, SFGate reports. According to the federal complaint, Claudio Rene Sunux, 30, of San Francisco, and Amanda Lopez, 27 of South San Francisco, were security screeners…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Agents returned fire Wednesday morning and killed a drug smuggling suspect near Roma, Texas, the Associated Press reports. The incident happened after Border Patrol agents came under fire while investigating suspected drug smugglers in the desert, the agency said. The agency, which has pledged to be more transparent about agent-involved shootings,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents in Arizona found nine immigrants locked inside the cargo area of a U-Haul, AzFamily.com reports. Agent searched the trucks after becoming suspicious of the driver and passenger at a checkpoint near Amado. Inside were eight adults and one juvenile who had no fresh air or ability to escape. An…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Details of the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near the Arizona-Mexico border in 2010 were largely unknown – until now. The Associated Press reports that armed men had sneaked into the U.S. to rob marijuana smugglers when the attack happened, according to an account given by prosecutors. Watching the men from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The high life is expensive. Just ask Lorne Leslie “Hammer” Jones, a former Border Patrol agent. Jones was found guilty Friday of helping smugglers enter California from Mexico to help finance his ritzy lifestyle, UPI reports. Feds say Jones took as much as a half-million dollars in payoffs in exchange for aiding…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping smuggle an undocumented Mexican immigrant into the U.S. in exchange for a bribe, the El Paso Times reports. In a Las Cruces federal court, Gabriel Burke, 42, admitted he was persuaded to violate his official duty between December 2011 and February 2012….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cameras are helping Border Patrol make arrests in areas where agents can’t always monitor, the Brownsville Herald reports. The technology in the lower Rio Grande Valley also helps agents keep an eye on the suspects while authorities move in. Border Patrol spokesman Henry Mendiola said told the Herald. Last week, agents seized…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fox 5 San Diego listed some unusual ways people have tried to smuggle drugs and humans across the U.S.-Mexico border. Also included are photos, including one of a man found sewn into the upholstery of a van seat. Other photos depict people hidden in compartments in the floor of a car or hidden…
