Texas
Alien Smuggling Ring Used Craigslist to Recruit Drivers
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As we’ve come to know, not all the ads on Craigslist promote legal activity. In one of the latest incidents, a Mexican national living in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, who used Craigslist to recruit drivers for an alien smuggling ring, has been busted. José Gustavo Diaz-Velasquez, 29, was arrested…
Payday: $29.5 in Forfeited Money Distributed to Law Enforcement Across Texas
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s payday, thanks to a Mexican drug cartel. The bulk of $29.5 million in money seized by federal authorities from a Mexican cartel boss has been handed out in “asset sharing” funds by ICE, DEA, FBI and other federal agencies to law enforcement agencies across the state of Texas to combat…
Sheriff Charged with Civil Rights Violations and Lying to FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A County Sheriff in Kentucky and his four deputies found themselves on the wrong end of a 10-count indictment, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. The indictment charges that the defendants–Barren County Sheriff Christopher Easton and deputies Danny McGown, Aaron Bennett, Adam Minor, and Eric Guffey–violated a victim’s civil rights by using unreasonable force…
Congressman Michael Grimm — an Ex-FBI Agent — Keeps Suspicious Business Ties
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After leaving the FBI, Congressman Michael G. Grimm invested about a million bucks of borrowed money in a Texas real estate investment. Looking for a builder for the project, Grimm found a former FBI agent he had served with in New York–an agent who was at the time under indictment on…
Ex-IRS Employee Sentenced for Trying to Bilk IRS Out of Millions of Dollars
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to Thomas W. Richardson: Get your cash elsewhere. Richardson, a former IRS employee form Mansfield, Tex., was sentenced in Dallas last week to 8 years and 9 months for scheme in which he tried bilking the IRS out of millions of dollars to start a real estate business, the Justice…
31 Charged in Texas DEA Bust
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A three-month-long DEA operation ended with federal drug and firearm charges filed against 31 people, CBS reports. The charges were made in the Texas towns of Midland and Odessa by the DEA’s Mobile Enforcement Team. Most defendants were arrested Thursday morning or were already in custody, according to CBS. The charges…
Secret Service Pick Up Armed Man Outside of Bush Home
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal agents detained an armed man outside of the Dallas home of President George W. Bush, reports Reuters. The man had a weapon in his car but was released after being questioned on Tuesday, a spokesman for the US Secret Service told Reuters. The unidentified man told agents and local police…