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Man Loses Lawsuit That Claimed DEA Supplied Him with Crack for Help in Investigation
A New Mexico man who claims federal agents gave him crack cocaine in exchange for help in an undercover investigation lost a lawsuit against he agency.
Homeland Security Takes Crackdown on Drug Smuggling to the Sky
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security is taking its fight against drug smuggling to the sky. The Associated Press reports that CBP agents are using aging P-3 surveillance planes with high-tech radar to search for drug smugglers. The surveillance comes at a time when agents are finding an increasing amount of cocaine smuggling across the…
Cocaine Production in Bolivia Drops for 4th Year in Row After DEA Was Kicked Out
For the fourth year in a row, cocaine production declined in Bolivia after the DEA was foxed to leave the country.
Observant, Off-Duty DEA Agent Busts Man with Large Amount of Cocaine in Suitcase
A DEA agent was off duty getting his car worked on when he saw a suspicious encounter.
Over-the-Top Flirting Raises Suspicions, Leads Border Patrol to $134K Worth of Cocaine
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A jet-setting model thought she’d distract Border Patrol officers by flirting with them, but her actions were so over-the-top that they raised suspicions and ultimately led to her arrest. Fox News Latino reports that they found $134,000 worth of cocaine insider the 39-year-old woman’s Mercedes at an Arizona border crossing. Anett…
The FBI and Drugs in the Beginning
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not proportional to his status as an alleged dealer. In the fall of 1965, Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents raided Bivens’ Brooklyn apartment. The FBN agents had neither an arrest warrant nor a search warrant….
DEA Special Agent Suffered Head Injuries, Broken Leg After Suspect’s Car Strikes Him
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA special agent was seriously injured after trying to stop a drug dealing suspect in a car as it entered a gas station in Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood, the Chicago Tribune reports. The fleeing car struck the agent, causing head injuries and a broken leg. The agent, whose identity has not…