By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite the president’s promise to place science above politics, the DEA issued a final order rejecting a license for a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor to grow marijuana for federally regulated research. Just over a decade ago, in June of 2001, Professor Lyle Craker, 70, applied for the license in an…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Those keeping score can add yet another extradition from Mexico in the fight against the violent drug trade. This time it’s Aurelio “Yayo” Cano-Flores, of the Mexican Gulf Cartel, also know as “Yankee.” Cano-Flores has been in the custody of Mexican authorities since a June 10, 2009 arrest, and was extradited…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not everyone in Mexico is happy with America helping the Mexicans battle the drug cartels. Prominent Mexican poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia wants the Mexican government to explain the reported presence of CIA and DEA agents in Mexico, Fox News Latino reported. Fox News reported that Sicilia made the demand…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA on Thursday announced the arrests of 1,985 persons as part of a 20-month crackdown on the La Familia Michoacana Mexican drug cartel’s operations in the U.S. DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said authorities said the crackdown, known as “Project Delirium”, also seized $62 million in U.S. currency, plus approximately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sign of the ongoing hostile feelings of Mexican drug gangs toward the DEA surfaced last week. The New York Daily News reports that a Mexican drug gang spray-painted a message Friday near a school in Chihuahua, about 220 miles from the U.S. border: “Gringos (D.E.A.), We know where you are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA has busted a major distributor of the recreational designer drug “bath salt” along with nine employees of retail shops in the first- ever federal prosecution of the emerging drug known to produce a high comparable high to Ectasy. The DEA in New York on Tuesday announced the arrest of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Family loyalty may be good in most instances, but apparently not in this one. Federal authorities last week charged three relatives with lying for Weldon Gordon, 33, a suburban D.C. man accused of killing an undercover DEA informant Andre Hayes in 2008, the D.C. Examiner reported. The relatives, who were arrested…
