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DEA Agent Joe DuBois Breaks Silence About Standoff With Mexican Drug Dealers in 1999
The story stems from a 1999 incident down in Mexico. If anything has changed in the past 11 years it’s that things haven’t gotten much worse. By Dan Schiller Houston Chronicle They were outnumbered and outgunned behind enemy lines, but the two U.S. federal agents cornered in a Mexican border city decided to die on…
Loyalty to Mom in New Orleans School Board Corruption Doesn’t Pay
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Loyalty to mom doesn’t always pay off. Stacy Simms, 49, the daughter of the former crooked ex-Orleans Parish School Board President Ellenese Brooks-Simms in New Orleans, was sentenced late last week two years probation for opening a bank account for mom to put her bribe money in, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
Calif. Man Under Investigation for Threatening Lives of DEA Agents and Families Arrested
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A northern California man who was under investigation for allegedly threatening the lives of DEA agents and their families via the Internet, was arrested late last week after park rangers saw him wave a gun at a national monument near the Oregon border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that rangers…
Detroit Free Press Editorial Calls For Elimination of Disparity in Crack Cocaine Sentences
The Detroit Free Press Editorial Page DETROIT — Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously this week to narrow the unconscionable sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. The notorious 100-1 ratio has no basis in science, while hitting poor people and African Americans especially hard. Along with other mandatory drug sentencing policies…
3 People Linked to U.S. Consulate in Mexico Killed in Drive-by Shooting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The White House got another reminder this weekend of the impact drug-cartels have on the border towns of Mexico. CNN reports that a drive by shooting in the border town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday resulted in the deaths of three people connected to the U.S. Consulate. The network…
New D.C. Attorney Machen Has Potential Headache on His Hands: Office Reviews Faulty FBI Analysts Info in Cases
U.S. Atty. Ronald Machen By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The District’s U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen has a potentially big headache on his hands. The Washington Post reports that Machen’s office “has found more than 100 cases since the mid-1970s that need to be reviewed because of potentially falsified and inaccurate tests by FBI analysts.”…
Parking Garage Fire Quickly Extinguished at FBI Headquarters
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A fire in a trash compactor in the parking garage at FBI headquarters on Saturday around 12:15 p.m. was quickly extinguished, the Associated Press reported. D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer told the AP that the fire was not suspicious. The headquarters is located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,…
Weekend Series on Crime History: MLK’s Assassin James Earl Ray
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