Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Baseball fans, brace for another wave of disclosures about players accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. ESPN is reporting that Major League Baseball is urging the DEA to identify the players in an attempt to begin an investigation. Now the feds are trying to determine how they are going to honor the request…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The founder of a company accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to more than a dozen professional baseball players is expected to be indicted soon by a Florida grand jury after he was arrested Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Tony Bosch, the founder of Biogenesis, surrendered to DEA agents at the bureau’s Fort…
By Ryan Reilly Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The leadership of the Drug Enforcement Administration comes under fire in a report issued by the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General on the near-death of a college student left in a holding cell for five days. The review finds that DEA leadership “violated Department of Justice…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com While six extradited Colombians have been arraigned and await trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Seven Colombian nationals have been extradited to the U.S. to face charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of DEA agent James Terry Watson, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. “With the extradition of these suspects, we are one step closer to ensuring that justice is served for the kidnapping and murder…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is trying to crack down on the latest synthetic drug craze that is responsible for at least 19 deaths nationwide, KGUN9-TV report. The drug is called “N-bomb” and has similar hallucinatory effects of LSD. But users are buying the drug from amateur chemists who are selling the product online. “It’s…
By Jeffrey Anderson An emerging crime initiative by Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane is deploying mobile street crimes units to small cities and towns in her state to tackle an escalating heroin problem tied to Mexican drug cartels. The strategy, quietly launched last year with the help of a $2.5 million state appropriation, is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Senate is considering a measure already approved by the House that would ban the DEA from using its budget to target marijuana users in states where cannabis is legal for medical purposes, the Huffington Post reports. The amendment to the Justice Department’s budget was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, who…
