Border Patrol Agent Accused of Working with Drug Traffickers
A Border Patrol agent in South Texas is accused of working with drug traffickers to stage narcotics seizures and sell the drugs for profit.
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Former DEA Task Force Member Indicted for Allegedly Stealing Cash, Drugs
A veteran narcotics officer who was member of a DEA task force in New Orleans has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly stealing drugs and seized cash.
DEA Warns of Pills Laced with Deadly Opioid in American Market
The DEA is bracing for overdoses after warning that hundreds of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills are laced with a potentially deadly synthetic opioid.
Steve Cook Elected President of the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Steven H. Cook, chief of the Criminal Division in the Eastern District of Tennessee, has been elected president of the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys. Cook has been a prosecutor in the Eastern District of Tennessee for 28 years. Over the years, he has worked in the Organized Crime and…
DEA Cracks Down on Painkillers by Making it More Difficult to Get Them at Pharmacy
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is cracking down on narcotic painkiller abuse by restricting how patients can receive the medication, the Wall Street Journal reports. The DEA plans to reclassify hydrocodone combination drugs like Vicodin, a move that will require people to receive a new prescription for painkillers every 90 days. Currently, painkiller users can…
Even DEA’s Own Hiring Policies Recognize Pot Isn’t As Dangerous As Other Drugs
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although the DEA has insisted that marijuana is one of the “most dangerous” drugs available, the agency’s own drug policy contradicts that. The Huffington Post reports that DEA applicants are prohibited from working for the agency if they have used narcotics or dangerous drugs in the past. There’s one exception – marijuana. It’s…
DEA: Doctors Not Taking Pain Killer Abuse Seriously Enough
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Doctors are largely responsible for the high rate of pain killer abuse because they don’t take the risks seriously enough, the DEA said Thursday, Bloomberg reports. “This drug has got a hold of this society and it’s killing us,” Joseph Rannazzisi, deputy assistant administrator in the DEA’s office of diversion control, said…
Guilty Verdicts Returned for Mexican Cartel Affiliates
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Things did not go the way Gerardo Castillo-Chavez and Armado Garcia had hoped in Laredo, Texas, on Wednesday. Both men saw guilty verdicts returned on all charges against them, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced. Castillo-Chavez, a 25-year-old from Tamaulipas, Mexico, was convicted of “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled…
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