By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted drug dealer Cameron Douglas, son of actor Mike Douglas and grandson of Kirk Douglas, has rounded up plenty star power to try and convince a federal judge to go easy on him at sentencing on April 14 in New York. Cameron’s grandfather Kirk Doulgas, his step-mother Catherine Zeta-Jones and NBA…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008”. By Ross…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-DEA Agent Richard Horn may have been quite happy when the government agreed to pay him $3 million late last year to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed the CIA spied on him and illegally wiretapped his conversations while he was stationed in Burma in 1993. But U.S….
What the heck was State Dept. worker Reginald Hopson doing with secret documents about DEA investigations and classified State Department cables he wasn’t supposed to have? By Jeffrey Anderson Washington Times WASHINGTON — Reginald Eugene Hopson, a 30-year State Department foreign service officer, was summoned back to Washington from South Africa in October, stripped of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Baltimore police detective on a DEA Task Force was charged Tuesday with fraudulently arranging for an informant to get more than $10,000 in payoffs he didn’t deserve, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The cop is also charged with pocketing some of that money. Detective Mark J. Lunsford, 29,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A northern California man who was under investigation for allegedly threatening the lives of DEA agents and their families via the Internet, was arrested late last week after park rangers saw him wave a gun at a national monument near the Oregon border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that rangers…
“Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena’s vicious kidnapping, torture, and murder 25 years ago remains a burning reminder of the dangers and high stakes involved in drug law enforcement” Michele Leonhart, Acting Administrator for the DEA By Jerry Seper Washington Times WASHINGTON –– Twenty-five years ago today, the brutally beaten body of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration…
Los Angeles Times Editorial When President Obama nominated Michele Leonhart to head the Drug Enforcement Administration last month, those hoping for a sensible federal policy regarding medical marijuana — one that promotes scientific research into its medicinal value and eschews prosecution when it is used in accordance with local laws — shivered. As special agent…
