Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is cracking down on narcotic painkiller abuse by restricting how patients can receive the medication, the Wall Street Journal reports. The DEA plans to reclassify hydrocodone combination drugs like Vicodin, a move that will require people to receive a new prescription for painkillers every 90 days. Currently, painkiller users can…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of fatally shooting an Albuquerque man last year was an active DEA informant despite his criminal background, according to a lawsuit filed against the agency, the Associated Press reports. The lawsuit claims the DEA did not properly supervise Jason Estrada, who was killed when he confronted a man accused…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA forked over $854,460 to an Amtrak secretary for confidential information the agency should have gotten for free, according to an internal investigation. The DEA paid the employee to be an informant despite the agency’s right to obtain the information at no cost as part of a joint drug enforcement task…
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…
