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 on March 14 by Border Patrol officers in Rio Grande City, Tex., the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

According to the criminal complaint, Diaz was part of an an alien smuggling group that used Craigslist. Authorities said the probe began in August 2011, when ICE-HSI agents spotted about 10 postings on Craigslist for drivers.

Authorities said investigators were able to identify the physical location — an apartment — where the Craigslist ads were posted.

Pres. Obama at press conference/white house file photo

Jokes and kidding only go so far with the Secret Service.

The Monroe News-Star reports that the Secret Service is investigating an anti-President Obama remark made at a Rick Santorum appearance in Louisiana Friday morning.

The paper reported that while Santorum was at the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office Rifle Range shooting at a paper target, a woman in the crowd shouted: “Pretend it’s Obama.”

The paper reported that Santorum was wearing protective ear muffs and said he didn’t hear it.

“It’s a very terrible and horrible remark, and I’m glad I didn’t hear it,” he said.

“We are conducting the appropriate investigative steps,” said George Ogilvie, public affairs officer for the Secret Service, according to the paper.

Alum Sen. Charles Schumer

The shooting of Trayvon Martin is prompting some folks to push for changes in the “Stand Your Ground” laws around the nation that allow people to use force if they think their lives or others are in danger.

The New York Post reports that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he wants the Justice Department to review the law.

“This ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is a whole new concept in our jurisprudence. It basically says, if you fear great physical harm, you can shoot,” said Schumer, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Some people call it ‘Shoot first; ask questions later,’” he added.

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Bernie Madoff

NEW YORK — After several drinks at a Greek restaurant on Manhattan’s Third Avenue in the summer of 2006, two computer programmers at Bernard Madoff’s (in picture) investment firm asked their supervisor whether the boss’s business was a scam.

Chief financial officer Frank DiPascali laughed off the question, telling George Perez and Jerome O’Hara that Madoff was honest. DiPascali would later tell the FBI he wondered why they took so long to ask.

His chronicle of the dinner, and the lengths to which Madoff went to convince employees that his massive fraud was a legitimate business, were revealed for the first time in FBI reports made public last week.

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• FBI Chief in Calif. Says So Long (U-T San Diego)
• DEA Targets Retailers (MedPage Today)