Man agents shot ran drugs into U.S. after he was given immunity, DEA report says
The Mexican national shot by two Border Patrol agents in a drug-related incident in February 2005 brought a second van load of drugs into the U.S. while he waited to testify against the agents, according to Drug Enforcement Administration reports obtained by the Daily Bulletin.
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila – who was given immunity by U.S. prosecutors in exchange for testifying against former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean – is the focus of a November 2005 DEA report that identifies him as the person responsible for stashing more than 750 pounds of marijuana in a van parked at a house in Clint, Texas, in October of that year.
”(A witness) stated that Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila was the individual that dropped off the 1990 Chevy Astro van,” according to the DEA document. “This van contained approximately 6 bundles of marijuana. . .
Sara Carter will be on the show at 3:00
GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER ‘TRUTH’
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). . .
Bill would regulate rehab homes
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation homes would face local oversight and broader licensing requirements under a new state bill.
The proposed legislation, introduced late Friday by state Sen. Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach, comes in response to local outcry over a perceived proliferation of addiction-recovery homes, especially in Newport Beach.
Catherine Wolcott, a contract city attorney in Newport, said Harman’s legislation does a “brilliant job of addressing some of the problems we’ve been having. . .
Sen. Tom Harman will be on the show at 4:00
Graffiti mars school media event
The two-block walk from the MTA bus stop to campus has often been a frightening ordeal for students at the Santee Education Complex just south of downtown Los Angeles.
Some have complained of gang activity and being harassed or robbed — including one student who was held up at gunpoint. The area was branded by Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. David L. Brewer as “one of the worst blocks” in the area.
On Monday, Brewer, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other officials trumpeted a new tactic to ease the fears: locating a bus stop directly behind the school so students don’t have to navigate through a gang-plagued neighborhood. . .
Ousted Minuteman leader seeks court remedy
A behind-the-scenes power struggle over control of the Minuteman Project spilled into an Orange County courtroom Monday with ousted co-founder Jim Gilchrist asking a judge to give him back control of the citizen border patrol group.
Superior Court Judge Randell L. Wilkinson said he would issue a ruling within a few days.
Gilchrist, 58, a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration, was removed as president of the Minuteman Project this month by its board of directors, which accused him of abusing his power and leaving more than $400,000 of the organization’s money unaccounted for. . .
