DEA Wants to Increase Marijuana Research While Limiting Opioids Production
The DEA is recommending an increase in the amount of marijuana grown for research while reducing the production of opioids.
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Ex-DEA Special Agent Pleads Guilty to Selling Guns to Suspected Drug Traffickers
A former supervisory special agent for the DEA in Nogales, Ariz., faces up to five years in prison for illegally selling firearms, including to suspected drug traffickers.
DEA Concerned About Drug-Laced Cash
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA is concerned about dirty money. More specifically, the agency is concerned that drug-laced cash seized in narcotics busts could seriously injure—even kill—its agents, the Daily Beast reports. So, the DEA has has begun reaching out to potential industry partners about decontaminating confiscated currency, the website reports. “Some of the substances on…
Sen. Marco Rubio Joins Others in Call for IG to Investigate DEA’s Haiti Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Marco Rubio has joined the chorus of politicians calling for an investigation into the DEA’s Haiti office following allegations of potential whistle-blower retaliation and mishandling of personnel matters, the Miami Herald reports. “Allegations of whistle-blower retaliation and personnel issues are extremely concerning and, if true, are counterproductive to the DEA’s…
Interim Head of DEA Is Stepping Down, Citing Increasing Challenges
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…
DEA Agent Wants Oklahoma Voters to Know Facts on Pot Measure on the Ballot
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…
DEA Creates Omaha Division Office, In Part to Battle Opioids
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…
DEA Agent Fatally Shoots Suspect in Drug Probe in Chicago
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…