…Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada who was “shocked” to discover that Richard Cramer, a high ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who had worked as liaison between his agency and the Drug Enforcement Agency in Guadalajara before taking over as resident agent in charge at Nogales, Arizona was arrested for conspiracy charges.
Cramer has been under investigation since 2006, and remained with the Federal agency until 2007.
Cramer allegedly advised traffickers on law enforcement tactics and pulled secret files to help them identify turncoats. He charged $2,000 for a Drug Enforcement Administration document that was sent to a suspect in Miami by e-mail in August, authorities said.
“Cramer was responsible for advising the [drug traffickers] how U.S. law enforcement works with warrants and record checks as well as how DEA conducts investigations to include ‘flipping subjects,’ ” or recruiting informants, a criminal complaint says.
Other than they cost more to bribe, why would anyone assume that U.S. agents are any less likely to go to work for the cartels than any other cop? And given the D.E.A.s track-record around Latin America, I have the terrible inkling that what brought Cramer down was that he forgot the first lesson of Kindergarten: when you have goodies, bring enough to share.
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