January 29th, 2010
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- Former CBP Officer Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Federal Prison
- Bill Introduced Requiring Intelligence Officials to be Consulted about Arrested Foreign Terrorists
- Border Patrol Arrests "America's Most Wanted" Murder Suspect
- The Takedown - Mexican Cocaine Trafficking Leader Sentenced to 27 Years in Federal Prison
- Movers & Shakers - ODNI Posthumously Awards 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte National Intelligence Medal for Valor
- Case Law Update - Ninth Circuit Held That Fourth Amendment Not Violated When Agents Entered Driveway of Home and Attached a Tracking Device to a Car
News Round Up
Former CBP Officer Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Federal Prison
Jose Carmelo Magana, 46, of Yuma, Arizona, was sentenced last Thursday by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 37 months in federal prison, to be followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Magana was also ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and to forfeit $5,100 to the United States in a companion civil case. Magana pleaded guilty on October 21, 2009, to charges of Attempting to Bring Illegal Aliens to the ...
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Bill Introduced Requiring Intelligence Officials to be Consulted about Arrested Foreign Terrorists
Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation Thursday requiring U.S. intelligence officials to be consulted following a foreign terrorist's detention by the United States. The legislation is intended to address the handling of the so-called Christmas Day terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was charged in civilian crimi ...
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Border Patrol Arrests "America's Most Wanted" Murder Suspect
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Nogales Station apprehended an illegal alien from Mexico last week. When the individual was processed using the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), records showed that he had an outstanding warrant for homicide. The man was identified as Guzman Badilla-Corona, a wanted fugitive featured on "America's Most Wanted." He was turned over to the Federal ...
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The Takedown - Mexican Cocaine Trafficking Leader Sentenced to 27 Years in Federal Prison
A Mexican cocaine trafficking leader has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. Jesus Manuel Fierro-Mendez, age 47, of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was sentenced earlier this month to 324 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Fierro-Mendez' arrest and prosecution was the result of a year-long investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The cocaine trafficking o ...
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Movers & Shakers - ODNI Posthumously Awards 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte National Intelligence Medal for Valor
Air Force 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte was posthumously awarded the National Intelligence Medal for Valor last Friday for her courageous efforts to teach Afghan military officials how to gather and interpret military intelligence. She died last May in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device struck her vehicle en route to a Bagram Airfield meeting on the very issue that powers the Intelligence Community: sharing ...
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Case Law Update - Ninth Circuit Held That Fourth Amendment Not Violated When Agents Entered Driveway of Home and Attached a Tracking Device to a Car
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that (1) DEA agents did not violate the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights when agents attached a tracking device to defendant's vehicle that was parked in an open driveway and (2) DEA agents did not conduct an impermissible search of defendant's car by monitoring it with tracking devices. In the Pineda-Moreno case, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special ...
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