An Arizona man smuggling migrants was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for speeding through a Border Patrol checkpoint in southern California and striking several agents in February 2021.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A boat packed with undocumented immigrants collided with a Border Patrol vessel in Southern California on Thursday, killing one woman, the International Business Times reports. Border Patrol agents spotted the boat and tried to stop it, but to no avail. The boat capsized and dumped all 20 people into the water,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent escaped almost certain death Monday after an out-of-control SUV tumbled down an embankment and onto his car on southbound Interstate 805 in southern California, NBC 7 reports. Police said a woman in a Jeep Grand Cherokee crashed into a hydrant and drove down the embankment, turning her car into…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP is grounding its remaining fleet of nine drones after one of them crashed off the Southern California coast because of mechanical problems, Reuters reports. Monday’s crash was the second involving the agency’s drones since it began using them in 2006. “While on patrol off the Southern California coast, the unmanned aircraft,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican national admitted Wednesday that he and two other gunman were involved in the 2009 murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern California, CNN reports. Marcos Rodriguez-Perez pleaded guilty to conspiracy, robbery and firearm charges, saying he and two others detained Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas Jr. at gunpoint….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The parents of an 18-year-old honor student who was shot and killed by plainclothes DEA agents in a state of confusion in southern California were awarded $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit, the Los Angeles Times reports. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald ruled that the DEA agents were not negligent in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James DiMaggio, the man accused of killing the mother and brother of his kidnapping victim in Southern California, was struck by at least five bullets in the head and chest, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an Idaho coroner. Valley County Coroner Nathan Hess said DiMaggio, who was armed and may have…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Islamic organization in Southern California is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate a case in which three pigs legs were strewn on a site of a proposed mosque last week during the Muslim holy month of of Ramadan, the Los Angeles Times reports. Pigs are offensive to Muslims because they…
