By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The public’s fascination with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, a legend, an enigma, a symbol of law enforcement, a subject of much speculation, continues 38 years after his death. Capitalizing on that, the National Law Enforcement Museum, which opens in March 2013 in Washington, has “sealed a deal” and gotten the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Planes and boats aren’t the only way to transport drugs across water. The DEA said Saturday it helped Ecuadorian officials seize a submarine that could have transported tons of cocaine, the Associated Press reported. It was seized near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border before it could make its maiden…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a Mexican gang leader just south of the Texas border in connection with the March murder of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband in the border area of Juarez, the El Paso Times reported. Authorities said they arrested Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo ,…
