By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The mountains aren’t the only way to get high in Colorado Springs, Colo., apparently. Investigators seized seven pounds of meth and made four arrests in the ski resort town, reports KRDO. Vincente Martinez,40, Jovel Cristian, 27, Martin Martinez, 21, and Rafael Amezcua, 27, all from Los Angeles, were arrested at a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Feds have been busy in Detroit, where a major drug bust ended with 15 people indicted for peddling a “massive amount” of cocaine and marijuana across the metro Detroit area, reports the Detroit Free Press. All were charged with running the operation from 2008 to 2011, while three were also…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The third and final defendant in a DEA operation targeting three Colombian drug runners tied to a Colombian drug cartel has been sentenced in Seattle, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hector Fabio Zapata was slapped with 30 years in prison on Monday, the last to face sentencing in the cocaine-trafficking probe. Like…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A DEA Agent may have his gun and ammo taken away from him after being arrested on domestic violence charges in Foster City, Calif., reports the Lagonian. Jay Anderson, a 29-year-old special agent with the DEA, was arrested on October 8 but will not face prosecution for the charges. He faced felony…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is concerned about American pharmacists. There have been about 1,800 pharmacy robberies in the past three years, he has said in calling for increased protection for pharmacists, reports UPI. Schumer blames the robberies on the increased ability to obtain highly addictive pain medications like Oxycontin, and in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barbara Grohl, head of the Colorado Department of Revenue, has written a letter asking the DEA to loosen federal controls on marijuana and recognize its “potential medicinal value,” the Denver Post reports. The letter, written on Dec. 22, is the result of a law passed last year; that legislation required the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A new leader has been named to the nation’s largest uniformed federal law enforcement agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reports the website AllGov.com. David V. Aguilar has been named the head of the agency. The move came after after Senate Republicans refused to hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Mexican drug cartels just aren’t selling drugs to make cash. AHN News reports that the cartels are increasingly extorting protection money from retail stores on the U.S. side of the border. Citing the DEA, the news agency reports that businesses often don’t report the extortion demands because they employe illegal…
