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Corruption Case against Ex-DEA Agent Goes to Jury
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations today in a corruption trial involving a now-retired DEA agent who is accused of accepting cash bribes to protect drug traffickers.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations today in a corruption trial involving a now-retired DEA agent who is accused of accepting cash bribes to protect drug traffickers.
A former CBP officer pleaded guilty to letting undocumented people into the U.S. and accepting bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed was several kilograms of cocaine to be smuggled into the country.
Steven L. Hofer was named special agent in charge of the DEA’s New Orleans Field Office, the agency announced Wednesday.
A former Border Patrol agent who worked in the San Diego area pleaded guilty Thursday to bribery and drug charges, admitting he used his position to help smuggle methamphetamine and undocumented immigrants across the border from Mexico.
A jury found two men guilty of carjacking an FBI employee at gunpoint and kidnapping him after they fled police in South Dakota in May 2022, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
The DEA seized a record amount of fentanyl in 2023 – enough to kill every American and then some, the agency announced.
The Justice Department on Tuesday charged eight Chinese chemical companies and 12 of their employees in connection with a crackdown on the global fentanyl network.