By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com DEA Special Agent James “Terry” Watson had spent an enjoyable evening with friends at a Bogota restaurant watching Game 7 of the Heat-Spurs NBA Championship game. He was assigned to Cartagena but was in the Colombian capital as part of his duties. Agent Watson knew how dangerous being in law enforcement…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four people accused of killing a DEA agent during an attempted robbery in Columbia last week are in custody, CNN reports. Columbia’s National Police apprehended the suspects and said two more are on the loose. The U.S. plans to request extradition, CNN wrote. Special Agent James “Terry” Watson was working on assignment…
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 In my two-part series I recently noted how rapidly Chinese chemists can react once one of their designer drugs is made illegal. They…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA agent shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried running him over Saturday in a hotel parking lot in Houston, the Houston Chronicle reports. The shooting happened in the afternoon at the Houstonian Hotel. The Chronicle reports that a DEA task force showed up in the employee parking lot…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA continues to crack down on medical marijuana stores in states where voters legalized the use of medical pot. The latest law enforcement effort is targeting medicinal pot shops cropping up in metropolitan Seattle, Q13 Fox reports. The DEA sent letters to shops that are close to schools or playgrounds and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has alarmed marijuana advocates after sending cease-and-desist letters to 11 dispensaries in the Seattle area, the Seattle Times reports. Although state law permits medical-marijuana dispensaries, federal law bans all forms of pot. The letters, however, don’t signal a war against state marijuana laws, according to the DEA. The dispensaries were…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA cannot eavesdrop on Apples’s iMessage chat service because of secure encryption, Slate.com reports. That’s good news if you’re concerned about privacy. But for law enforcement, the inability to monitor iMessages sent between two Apple devices is problematic. Wireless technology has challenged law enforcement’s ability to monitor suspicious activity. The problem…
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. This is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Part one of this report discussed the…
