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….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jimmy Fox III, head of the DEA in New Orleans, is the subject of an internal investigation, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The paper reports he may have violated some ethics laws when he put in a bid to oversee sweeping reforms in the police department that had been ordered under…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Los Angeles Police Department investigation into the death of a man while he was in the custody of the DEA has been virtually stalled because the federal agency has refused to cooperate with the investigation, the LA Times reports. After analyzing records, the Times wrote that LAPD investigators can’t determine how…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com During a raid, DEA agents in Texas knocked the homeowner unconscious, sent his wife into an epileptic fit and seized the children at gunpoint. There’s one small problem: It was the wrong house. That’s according to a recent lawsuit filed by Guillermo and Alejandra Ramirez, which are seeking $3 million in damages…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired DEA agent was arrested on accusations of trying to buy sex from an undercover officer in Palm Bay, Florida, WDBO reports. The former agent, David Costa, 76, was nabbed as part of a sting operation undercover officers posing as prostitutes, WDBO reported. “It just sometimes amazes me how many people…
BY MARY ALICE POWELL Toledo Blade Columnist At the Adrian College vs. Kalamazoo College game last weekend the band played the Star Spangled Banner as it always does. Spectators on both sides of the field rose to their feet as the flag was raised, as is expected. But at this game a wave of patriotism…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police don’t need a search warrant to install hidden surveillance cameras to spy on suspects, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, CNET reports. The case involved DEA agents installing multiple surveillance cameras without a warrant to uncover evidence of a marijuana growing operation. The DEA didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects against…
