Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are alarmed at what appears to be an increase in cartels recruiting children and teenagers to smuggle drugs over the U.S. border, NBC 7 in San Diego reports. Federal agents said children as young as 12 are being used as drug mules. “It shocks me and saddens me that kids…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with a suspected smuggler on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, the San Antonio Express-News reports. “Our agents are not going to tolerate this,” Border Patrol spokesman Henry Mendiola said Tuesday. “They’re well-trained, they’re well equipped, and they will respond to neutralize these threats.” The Friday shooting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was the end of the line Friday for two former U.S. Border Patrol agents who fled to Mexico while under investigation for smuggling hundreds of illegal immigrants. The Los Angeles Times reports that two, who are brothers, were convicted in federal court in San Diego of multiple counts of conspiracy,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The TSA has got the Christmas-time itch for unwrapping gifts. The agency has announced a zero-tolerance towards wrapped gifts after one passenger was found to be carrying marijuana in a wrapped gift, reports CBS Los Angeles. That means the TSA will unwrap your wrap if it’s suspicious. The TSA realizes there …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — There’s different kinds of Ooops. There’s the recent one when presidential candidate Rick Perry had a senior moment during the debates. Then there’s the ones where authorities arrest the wrong guy. This one involved the wrong guy. The Detroit Free Press reports that police, acting on an FBI arrest…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Radio frequency modules from a Minnesota manufacturer, after being smuggled into Iran, ended up in improvised explosive devices used against U.S. soldiers on the battlefields of Iraq, federal authorities alleged this week. Authorities in Singapore arrested Wong Yuh Lan (Wong), Lim Yong Nam (Nam), Lim Kow Seng (Seng), and Hia Soo…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for one of those black eyes that all police departments hate. Reuters reports that 8 New York cops were arrested Tuesday on fed charges for allegedly helping run a run a gun-smuggling ring in the city. Four others were also charged in the case. Reuters reported that the U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you figured the testimony of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich at his retrial on corruption charges in downtown Chicago would be filled with shenanigans and piss off the judge, well…. you guessed right. First off, the U.S. District Judge James Zagel on Wednesday got angry after Blago tried “smuggling” in evidence…
