By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-DEA agent Louis (Louie The Actor) Diaz, testified last week in Brooklyn federal court in the trial of a Gambino mobster that he did some devilish things himself while working undercover, Gang Land News. Mob expert Jerry Capeci, editor of Gang Land News, reports that Diaz testified in the racketeering…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama will name Julia Pierson as director of the U.S. Secret Service, the first female to head that agency, USA Today reported. An official announcement is expected Tuesday afternoon. Pierson, 53, now serves as the service’s chief of staff, USA Today reports. Other women who head law enforcement agencies include…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is refusing to answer questions about three of its agents who are still on the federal payroll despite their alleged involvement in a prostitution scandal in Colombia, the Washington Examiner reports. The accusations are serious. DEA agents are accused of paying for a prostitute for a Secret Service supervisor and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the federal government doesn’t act soon, it may lose the chance to stamp out recreational pot laws in Colorado and Washington, cautioned eight former DEA officials, the Associated Press reports. Although voters legalized small amounts of possession last year in those states, the law still conflicts with a federal ban on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The state and justice departments have no intention of investigating complaints of human rights violations and other misconduct by DEA agents in Honduras, the Washington Times reports. At issue is the May 2012 deaths of four Honduran villagers during an anti-drug operation along the Carribean coast. Some lawmakers and human-rights groups have…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Doctors are largely responsible for the high rate of pain killer abuse because they don’t take the risks seriously enough, the DEA said Thursday, Bloomberg reports. “This drug has got a hold of this society and it’s killing us,” Joseph Rannazzisi, deputy assistant administrator in the DEA’s office of diversion control, said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA maintains the legalization of marijuana in some states and cities would increase drug use and make marijuana more available, according to a federal report released Wednesday, Huffington Post reports. “Recently, efforts to legalize marijuana have increased. Keeping marijuana illegal reduces its availability and lessens willingness to use it,” the DEA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA agent is accused of sending a prostitute to a Secret Service agent in Colombia while the pair were in the country working, the Huffington Post reports, citing a Justice Department report. The reports says a Secret Service supervisory agent received a massage and sex while preparing for President Obama’s visit….
