By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insulted — albeit inadvertently — the folks at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today by mentioning the FBI instead of their agency in remarks about the war on drugs. At a town hall meeting in Washington aired on MTV, the president told a group…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, claims a DEA note he has proves he’s an innocent man, the Washington Post reports. The DEA says that ain’t necessarily so. Ahmed Karzai, long rumored to be getting rich off Afghanistan’s opium trade said of the DEA letter, according to the Post:…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA collected more than 242,000 pounds of unwanted prescription drugs from the public at more than 4,000 sites in 50 states as part of its “Take-Back” campaign held on Sept. 25. “The Take-Back Campaign was a stunning nationwide success that cleaned out more than 121 tons of pills…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine former DEA administrators have fired off a letter to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. asking that he step in if Californians in November vote to legalize marijuana, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that the administrators wrote an Aug. 24 letter to Holder asking that he file a lawsuit challenging…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Prescription drugs stored in medicine cabinets and in kitchens and bedrooms may not be as innocent as they appear. With that in mind, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, along with government, community, public health and law enforcement partners, plan next month to launch a “Take-Back” initiative “that seeks to…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News If you speak Ebonics, the federal government may have a job for you. The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to hire people fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, transcribe and translate secretly recorded conversations in narcotics investigations, according to the website The Smoking Gun and DEA documents. The Smoking Gun…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suspected member of the violent Juarez Drug Cartel in Mexico has been extradited to the states, the DEA in El Paso said. Felipe DOMINGUEZ-Vargas was extradited on Aug. 10 and made his initial appearance on drug charges in U.S. District Court in El Paso on Monday, according to Joseph M….
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com For a big-time Louisiana drug trafficker, the dog and cockfighting ring served as the ideal venue to help expand his drug ring. Pedro Mendez Ramos, of Church Point, La., who authorities described as “an avid pit bull and cock fighter”, used more than 300 gamecocks and 60 pit bulls as a…
