President Obama on Thursday delivered a clear message Wednesday when he commuted the federal prison sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders: The time has come to overhaul a criminal justice system that locks away too many nonviolent offenders.
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. By Ross Parker With the recent volume of media on the issue of the heroin epidemic, its overdoses and deaths, has come an effort to provide an…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who stole heroin seized as evidence to feed his addiction was sentenced to three years in federal prison Thursday, a much lighter sentence than prosecutors wanted, the Washington Post reports. Matthew Lowry’s theft of evidence prompted prosecutors to dismiss drug cases against 28 defendants. Calling it the most…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who stole heroin from criminal investigations to feed his addiction should be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison, prosecutors plan to urge a judge, the Washington Post reports. Former agent Matthew Lowry, who worked in the Washington field office, spoiled drug case and forced prosecutors…
A South Carolina man is expected to be sentenced to prison today after shooting and wounding a DEA agent during a drug raid at the suspect’s house.
If the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says it can’t do its job without bypassing a judge’s signature, it raises reasonable suspicions about law enforcement operating without proper oversight.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating an alleged drug smuggling ring that operated at the upstate New York prison where two killers escaped, the New York Post reports. “The FBI is investigating the prison for drug trafficking. Agents are re-interviewing inmates and prison workers who have already been interviewed by state investigators,” a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Lowry seemed to have everything going for him. He worked for an elite drug task force after graduating with honors from the FBI Academy. His wife was pregnant with their first child. Trouble is, Lowry had become addicted to pain medication to ease his chronic and painful inflammations of the…
