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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Mexican man shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents who were later convicted in the shooting has been indicted on federal drug smuggling charges, authorities said Thursday. Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso, according to U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. A sealed indictment was issued in October charging him with smuggling marijuana in September and October of 2005, several months after he was shot in the buttocks while fleeing from a pair of Border Patrol agents. The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos,...

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The federal government has obtained an indictment against Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez for drugs found in his safe-house in October 2005, but still has failed to pursue action against Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler in the Ramos-Compean case, who reportedly delivered those drugs to the safe-house, according to documents WND has obtained. Ortiz-Hernandez has been named in a federal drug indictment that alleges federal agents discovered about 5,000 pounds of marijuana at his house over a period of several visits from March 2004 to October 2005. But Aldrete-Davila, who made that 750-pound delivery on Oct. 23, isn't being pursued, apparently because of...

<p>It is being reported right now on Lou Dobbs on CNN, that the two Border Patrol Agents who shot and wounded a drug smuggler got 11 and 12 years in prison. The drug smuggler was given immunity to testify against the agents.</p>

SPOKANE, Wash. - Former National Guard intelligence officer Rafael Davila admits he spent years bringing home secret and top-secret documents, stacking them in his basement and finally in a rented storage locker. He told the FBI he just wanted to read them. Now in a case with ties to the shadowy world of white supremicists and anti-government militias, prosecutors are accusing Davila and his ex-wife, Deborah, of espionage. Investigators are still trying to track down hundreds of files apparently containing information about nuclear, chemical and biological warfare. A federal indictment charges the Davilas with unauthorized possession of sensitive documents during...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- FBI agents arrested a former Washington Army National Guard officer and his ex-wife on espionage charges alleging they attempted to sell national security secrets. Rafael Davila, 51, and Deborah Davila-Cummings, 46, were arrested Tuesday and ordered held without bail.The charges of retaining and attempting to pass national security documents without authorization were contained in an indictment filed in federal court."This case involves the sale of `top secret' and `secret' documents involved with the defense of the United States," Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl Hicks said in court Tuesday.The nature of the documents wasn't detailed in the indictment,...

Former Guard officer, ex-wife accused of espionage THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPOKANE -- FBI agents have arrested a former Washington Army National Guard officer and his ex-wife on espionage charges relating to issues of national defense. The government declined to release details of the alleged espionage, other than to describe it in court documents as "unauthorized retention of documents relating to the national defense of the United States." Rafael Davila, 51, and Deborah Davila, 46, were arrested Tuesday and were being held without bail. Officials for the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., the U.S. attorney's office in Spokane and the FBI...