About 100 people were arrested on Wednesday in a crackdown on two criminal gangs that uthorities said trafficked heroin and cocaine from the Dominican Republican and Puerto Rico into southeastern Connecticut, Reuters reported. More than 700 law enforcement officers made federal and state arrest and arrest warrants in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island.
Guards at a Los Angeles jail fired rubber pellets and pepper spray to swiftly quell a racially charged brawl involving more than 60 inmates, and six injured prisoners were taken to a hospital.
John Hileman, a Houston-based assistant U.S. attorney, has reportedly left a case involving memebers of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, citing "security concerns,"
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested one man Tuesday and were searching for another in a remote area along the U.S.-Canadian border in northwest Washington, after the agents encountered the camouflaged pair and one shot at them.
