By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Having interim heads of major federal law enforcement agencies for too long often sends a message that the agency isn’t as important as some other agencies like the FBI. Now comes Robert W. Patterson, acting head of the DEA, who told staff Monday in an email that he is retiring in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oklahomans will vote whether to legalize medical marijuana. So, the head of Oklahoma’s DEA office, Richard Salter, is going around delivering a 45-minute presentation, saying people need to know the facts. He says the bill is really about recreational use, not medical, News on 6 reports. “I think Oklahoma will be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA is establishing an Omaha Field Division, its 23rd division office in the nation. The division will include Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. “In January, DEA reorganized its field divisions for the first time in nearly 20 years. Today, just five months later, we are adding another…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA agent fatally shot a suspect in a drug probe on Chicago’s west side on Saturday morning, WLS TV reports. The DEA said it was conducting surveillance on, “an individual and a location known as a multiple-kilogram cocaine distribution point,” the station reports. A marked police car attempted to conduct…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA has apologized after raiding the wrong home in Cleveland, Tenn. The task force was looking for a murder suspect but barged into the wrong home instead.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is concerned about allegations of misconduct involving the DEA’s Haiti office and the effectiveness of the office’s efforts to fight drugs in that country, the Miami Herald reports. Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland have written to Justice’s…
Paul Armentano is the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He is the co-author of the book, Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? and the author of the book, The Citizen’s Guide to State-By-State Marijuana Laws. This piece appears in The Hill. By Paul…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a scenario that has been played out countless times over the years. Jason McGahan of the Daily Beast reports: A top-ranking Mexican police commander who was the point person for intelligence sharing between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement has pleaded “no contest” in Chicago federal court to charges he leaked…
