Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The shooting death of a suspected drug trafficker in Honduras by a federal agent is part of a new, aggressive enforcement strategy that started in April, the Washington Post reports. Since then, the DEA has seen a dramatic increase in arrests. The mission is called Operation Anvil and is run by six…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The continuing clash between state and federal officials over how to handle medicinal pot in states that legalized it arrived in Sacramento again with a raid on a dispensary, the Sacramento Bee reports. Although the Obama administration pledged to respect state laws on medicinal marijuana, the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency executed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former federal investigator called for the legalization of drugs during a Libertarian Party of Texas convention over the weekend, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reported. Saying the war on drugs has spread needless violence and wasted billions of tax dollars, Sean Dunagan, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration, also told the…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details of Thursdays’ massive drug bust reveal an ongoing game of whack-a-mole between the DEA and drug smugglers working the commercial airline systems. In this recent bust the DEA and FBI, in concert with Puerto Rican and local authorities, disabled two rings trafficking cocaine into the U.S., primarily through Puerto Rico Muniz…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Things got hot in Puerto Rico Thursday for two criminal organizations busted for massive-scale narcotics trafficking. Thirty-six arrests were made in a major bust, culminating a collaboration between the DEA, the Puerto Rico PD, FBI, and San Juan Municipal Police. It was all part of an effort to disable two criminal organizations…
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — Last April, thousands of miles from Baltimore in the West African country of Ghana, a man known as “Wagba” got on the phone and mediated a Baltimore heroin-dealing dispute. Nana Boateng, who supplied Baltimore dealers with heroin shipped under Wagba’s direction by couriers traveling to the United…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now it’s the DEA’s turn. CBS News is reporting that the Justice Department Inspector General’s Office is investigating allegations that three DEA hired hookers in Colombia. The incident is unrelated to the Secret Service debacle. However, CBS reported that DEA said the initial info came from the Secret Service. OTHER STORIES…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Protesters in Honduras’ Miskito Coast have burned down government offices and demanded that U.S. drug agents leave the area, following antidrug operations that killed four innocent people May 11, including two pregnant women, reports the AP. The DEA supported the raid on the Patuca River in northeastern Honduras last week, when along…
