Brian Terry

The Justice Department announced on Monday the indictment of five people in connection with the 2010 death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and a $1 million reward from the FBI for info leading to the arrest of four the defendants who remain at large.

Authorities unsealed the indictment in Tuscon charging  Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, Ivan Soto-Barraza, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes and Lionel Portillo-Meza with  first degree murder, second degree murder, conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, attempted interference with commerce by robbery, use and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, assault on a federal officer and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.  Only Manuel Osorio-Arellanes has been in custody.

Authorities charged that the men crossed the border into the U.S. to rob drug traffickers and ended up in a gun fight with agent Terry.

“Agent Terry served his country honorably and made the ultimate sacrifice in trying to protect it from harm, and we will stop at nothing to bring those responsible for his murder to justice,” said Attorney General Eric Holder in a statement.“This investigation has previously resulted in one defendant being charged with Agent Terry’s murder and taken into custody, and today’s announcement reflects the department’s unrelenting commitment to finding and arresting the other individuals responsible for this horrific tragedy so that Agent Terry’s family, friends and fellow law enforcement agents receive the justice they deserve.”

Terry’s name has become part of the controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, an ATF operation out of Phoenix that encouraged gun dealers to sell to “straw purchasers”, all with the hope of tracing the guns to the Mexican cartels.

Two of the guns from that operation surfaced at the crime scene where Terry was murdered.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, ranking member of the the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has been examining the failed Operation Fast and Furious, issued a statement:

“I commend the Department of Justice for its vigorous pursuit of justice for Brian Terry’s family. I remain dedicated to ensuring that his family and the American people get the answers they deserve.”

Steve Neavling

The FBI is investigating a link between the son of a U.S. district judge and a Las Vegas nightclub operator who received a lenient sentence in a $7 million tip-concealment scheme, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

Agents want to know about Brian Dawson’s employment as a bartender at clubs associated with Steve Davidovici.

Dawson is the son of U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson, who sentenced Davidovici to probation over the objections of prosecutors, according to the Review-Journal.

The probe is being handled by the FBI’s public corruption unit in Las Vegas.

 New records show the FBI was secretly monitoring a U.S. Civil Rights Commission worker decades ago to keep a better eye on black activists in Memphis, Tenn., the Associated Press reports.

The FBI collected photographs of Rosetta Miller-Perry, studied her political views and even investigated her love life, according to the Commercial Appeal.

Records also show that photographer Ernest Withers, whose images of the civil rights era were seminal, secretly worked for the FBI to photograph Miller-Perry and others.

“It’s scary even when I think about it now,” Miller-Perry, 77, told the Commercial Appeal.

Steve Neavling

A Mexican drug cartel is accused of using Bank of America Corp. to invest money generated from selling cocaine into U.S. horse racing, Bloomberg reports.

Jose Trevino-Morales, the brother of the cartel’s alleged leader, was indicted by a grand jury June 11.

“The ultimate goal of this money laundering operation was to provide Jose Trevino with apparent legitimate assets purchased and maintained by illegally obtained money,” Preece , a special agent with the FBI, said in a statement.

Court filings show that Los Zetas drug cartel  is one of the largest in Mexico and funnels thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. each year, according to Bloomberg.

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