October 2012
Worldwide Crackdown on Illegal Internet Sales of Prescription Drugs Results in the Seizure of Nearly 700 Sites
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Americans who have trouble getting prescriptions from doctors for narcotic medications often find no problem accessing the drugs from illicit online sites. It will be more difficulty under a crackdown led by ICE and the Department of Justice, which have seized 686 websites accused of selling fake or illegal drug over the…
DEA Takes 2 Million Pounds of Unused Prescription Drugs Out of Circulation in Two-Year Effort
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s two year effort to encourage Americans to turn in expired prescription drugs netted 2 million pounds of unused, potentially hazardous medication, the AP reports. The initiative, called Drug Take-Back Day, took place nationwide and prompted residents to empty their medicine cabinets of unwanted and expired drugs. The drugs were dropped…
FBI Paid $40,000 to Informant Who Helped Bring Down Members of a Neo-Nazi Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI paid $40,000 to an undercover informant who infiltrated a neo-Nazi group in Florida and secretly photographed white supremacists, some of whom were arrested last spring, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The informant, Jason Hall, helped determine that the members of American Front were receiving paramilitary training to prepare for an inevitable…
FBI Agents Finally Reach Libyan City Where Four Americans Were Killed in Attack on U.S. Consulate
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A team of FBI agents finally arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate and has narrowed the suspects to one or two people in an extremist group, the Associated Press reports. The AP said agents swooped in before dawn Thursday and left after about 12 hours…
Was Border Agent Victim of Friendly Fire?
STORIES OF OTHER INTEREST FBI Investigates Missing Funds at Marion, Ill Water Department Los Angeles Defiant in Transferring Some Immigrants FBI Searches for More Sexual Victims in Civil Air Patrol ACLU Loses Case to Obtain Records on FBI Secret Program Search for Wanted Terrorist Takes FBI to Facebook and Twitter
Betrayal Of A Mayor: Confidante Says She Gave Detroit Mayor $200,000-Plus In Kickbacks
“A true friend stabs you in the front.” Oscar Wilde By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– Betrayal. There ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sat in federal court Thursday morning, bow tie and suit, leaning at first to the left, looking dour, as if someone was about to punch him in the stomach. In front…
Controversy Heats Up Over Border Patrol’s Shooting of a Mother of Five
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One thing is for sure: A mother of five was killed in her car by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near San Diego. Why the agent opened fire last week on Valeria Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, remains the subject of an investigation and much debate in the heavily Latino suburb of Chula Vista,…