The Justice Department charged 47 alleged members of a Sinaloa Cartel-linked drug dealing network in Imperial Valley, Calif., as part of a long-term investigation Wednesday.
Signaling a seismic shift in marijuana enforcement, the Justice Department on Thursday officially moved to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug.
The DEA is expected to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic move that would dramatically ease federal restrictions on cannabis.
CBP officers discovered more than 47 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside an ice chest of fish.
A former Border Patrol agent who helped smuggle two large duffel bags of cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin into the U.S. has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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.
