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DEA Agent Dies a Month After Motorcycle Crash in Indiana
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Scott Sieben, a DEA agent assigned to the Evansville, Ind., post, died this week from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash a month earlier, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. Scott Sieben, 54, died Tuesday in an Indianapolis hospital where he had been since the May 3 crash. Sieben previously worked…
Lawmakers Try to Protect Medical Marijuana Users from Zealous DEA
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s defiant crusade against marijuana users may cost the agency a lot of money. Federal lawmakers are considering several proposals that would severally limit the DEA’s ability to arrest marijuana users, the LA Weekly reports. One bill would protect hemp growers and sellers, and another would extend a law designed…
DEA More Than Triples Use of Wiretaps, Other Surveillance Over Past Decade
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s use of wiretaps and other electronic surveillance more than tripled in the past decade, often bypassing courts and federal prosecutors, according to newly obtained records, the USA Today reports. The DEA used electronic surveillance 11,681 times in the last fiscal year, compared to just 3,394 a decade ago. The…
A Ranking Agent and A Telecommunication Specialist for DEA Charged in Connection With Strip Club That Hired Illegal Aliens and Had Prostitution
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A high-ranking DEA agent, who retired last month, and a telecommunications specialist for the agency were arrested on charges they flouted their duties by running a lucrative strip club in New Jersey where prostitution was captured on security video, the Associated Press reported. AP reports that court papers in New York…
DEA Agents Busted Lying About Secret Ownership of Strip Club
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two DEA workers are accused of secretly running a strip club in New Jersey and then lying about their ownership interests during national security background checks. The New York Times reports that the officials were David Polos, who most recently served as an assistant special agent in charge, and Glen Lover, a…
DEA Arrests 2 in Largest-Ever Seizure of Heroin in NYC History
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The bust was so big that federal authorities are already calling it the largest seizure of heroin in New York City history. The DEA helped nab a pair of suspected Bronx drug traffickers in what turned out to be the largest seizure of heroin in the city’s history, NBC New York…
DEA Agents Allege Management Discriminates Against Military Reservists
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sixteen DEA agents who also serve as military reservists have filed a complain that alleges they are discriminated against by management, CBS 8 reports. “They (DEA) have a consistent, perpetual harassment that continues to escalate,” said DEA Special Agent Mark Coast of San Diego. “Servicemen should not be treated as second…