By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the meth problem growing, DEA’s top boss Michele M. Leonhart announced Thursday the signing of a new memorandum of cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico “to aggressively address the continuing problem” of production. In a press release, the DEA said the U.S. and Mexican officials enjoy a strong cooperative relationship…
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — The Lancair IV-P airplane is a sleek four-seater, capable of flying 330 miles per hour and more than 1,500 miles on a tank of gas. The one that was seized in June 2009 from Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, near Denver, had been purchased the previous summer for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities have the right to look at the utility bills of suspected marijuana growers, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The case involved Golden Valley Electric Association, which refused to disclose the records to the DEA. The DEA issued a subpoena for information on a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The owner of a Texas trucking company is demanding the DEA compensate him for an undercover sting that led to his employee’s death and the damage of a company truck, the San Antonio Express reports. Truck company owner Craig Patty said he had no idea Lawrence Chapa was working undercover for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jonathan V. Hoang wanted to be a federal law enforcement agency since he was a child. He even unsuccessfully applied to the agency in 1986. Now the 47-year-old San Jose man is accused of impersonating a federal drug agent by forging credentials, adding lights and sires to his truck and using his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is shaking up the drug war in Central America following two lethal DEA-related shootings of suspected Honduras drug smugglers, The Global Post reports. The shooting deaths of trafficking suspects on June 23 and July 3 is part of a new DEA mission called “Operation Anvil” in which U.S. agents team up…
Robert J. Nieves is a partner in the firm BERG Associates. He retired from DEA in 1995 as the chief of international operations. By Robert J. Nieves Washington Times Anyone who has spent time in Washington knows government runs on process. There is a procedure for everything, and this is especially true in federal law enforcement,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com No one knows what Ford Cummings was thinking when he walked into a Texas jail, posing as a DEA agent who needed the release of an inmate. The 32-year-old with a gun tucked into his belt and no ID raised some eyebrows, the Houston Press reports. Cummings was charged with third-degree count…
