Federal agents worry that a drug dealer is now in possession of a gun .223-caliber rifle that was stolen from the backseat of a car driven by a Homeland Security agent.
A federal trial has begun in the case of an FBI agent accused of framing a man in the kidnapping and robbery of two Kansas City drug dealers.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At first glance, Daniel Ramirez looked like a hapless taveller on crutches. But when the 21-year-old was on a train traveling from California to Chicago, DEA task force officers said he looked nervous and suspicious, The Smoking Gun reports. More alarming, his cast was “uneven in texture, size and shaping not consistent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Georgia sheriff’s deputy is accused of peddling pot from his squad car. The FBI said Darrell Mathis, 40, sold a pound of marijuana to an undercover agent and then coordinated a drug-selling scheme with another agent, the New York Daily News reports. That scheme involved Mathis transporting pot to another state,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI investigated the New York Knicks in the early 1980s on allegations that three of the players shaved off points “as a favor to their cocaine supplier,” Sports Illustrated reports. The revelations come from the recently released book, “Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI.” According to the book,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested four people – three of them former and current cops – accused of scheming to steal cash from drug dealers, the bureau announced Wednesday, according to the Jackson Free Press. In September 2011, the men allegedly entered a Jackson, Mississippi, hotel room of suspected drug dealers and stole $23,000 in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A shootout involving undercover DEA, NYPD and the State Police task force left one suspect wounded in upper Manhattan, reports the New York Post. At 10 p.m., the officers spotted a group of armed men about to rob a known drug dealer when they tried to bust the thieves, the Post…
