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Hezbollah Accused of Purchasing Weapons Through International Drug Trafficking
As a result, the DEA said it’s involved in “significant enforcement activity” against Hezbollah.
As a result, the DEA said it’s involved in “significant enforcement activity” against Hezbollah.
The operation was led by Homeland Security with the help of U.S. Customs, FBI and DEA.
The seven-month investigation, dubbed “Operation Wild Wild East,” was carried out to capture suspects tied to drug-related violence.
The arrangement “could have violated individuals’ protection against unreasonable searches and seizures if it led to a subsequent DEA enforcement action.”
Venezuela’s first lady said the arrest of her two nephews on drug trafficking charges amounts to kidnapping by the DEA.
An Amtrak was paid more than $850,000 to act as an informant for the DEA over the past 20 years, but none of the information that was received was new to the federal agency.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John “Jack” Riley, Â the DEA’s acting deputy administrator, has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed of the Year for 2015. Riley, a native of Chicago with more than 25 years of drug law enforcement experience, was appointed the acting second-in-command of the DEA in April as the top administrator, Michele Leonhart, was stepping…
A Mexican drug cartel founder who was on the DEA’s Most Wanted List was found tortured and dead along with three other men dumped along the side of the road.