Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 31-year-old Tucson man led Border Patrol agents on a 15-mile car and foot chase before an agent shot and killed him Friday afternoon, KVOA.com reports. The chase began when Jose Luis Arambula failed to yield at a checkpoint on Interstate 19 in Green Valley. Agents later found bundles of marijuana weighing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It seems some of the FBI’s best hacker recruits also like to smoke marijuana. The Washington Times reports that the FBI says its no-tolerance pot policy is hurting the bureau’s ability to recruit the best and brightest hackers. “I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are still scratching their heads after a young woman tried to pass through security with 81 pounds of marijuana. KHON 2 reports that Anastasia Murdock, 26, was carrying about $100,000 worth of pot in vacuum sealed bags in her luggage at Oakland International Airport on Friday. “Security says she may…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The longtime San Diego gang is known for its ruthless violence, from execution-style murders to the shooting of a pregnant woman. Now U-T San Diego reports that federal authorities nabbed most of the 55 suspected members of the West Coast Crips in pre-dawn raids Thursday, changing them with crimes spanning from murder…
By Daniel Denzir Al Jazeera Last month Don McIntosh, a journalist and friend of mine in Portland, Ore., posted on Facebook that his half brother Daniel McIntosh had just been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for selling 954 kilograms of marijuana and money laundering as part of a 16-member pot-selling ring. “Our…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com A recent study by researchers from Northwestern University and Harvard University Medical School has concluded that even moderate use of marijuana by young adults affects the structure of their brains. The study, published in the April 16, 2014 Journal of Neuroscience, found that the size and shape of the region of…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com A recent study by researchers from Northwestern University and Harvard University Medical School has concluded that even moderate use of marijuana by…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As marijuana legalization shifts in public opinion, state laws and within the Obama administration, the DEA is pledging to fight even harder, said DEA Chief Michele Leonhart Wednesday. The Huffington Post reports that Leonhart, speaking during testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee, maintains voters were duped into approving marijuana legalization in Washington…
