Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Paul Schmidt spent most of his career hunting down drug dealers. Now the retired DEA agent – the former top drug enforcer in Oregon – is holding seminars to advise medical marijuana dispensaries on the laws, CNBC reports. DEA Agent Patrick Moen recently gave up his badge to work for a venture-based…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will become special agent in charge of Oregon’s FBI office, The Oregonian reports. Bretzing, 47, will take over on March 31. Bretzing, whose father was an FBI agent, served as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com From the FBI to shoes? Oregon’s top FBI official, Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler, is leaving the helm after two years, the Oregonian reports. “I am retiring at the end of this month to take a position in the private sector,” said Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John C. Bates, the head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Blaine Sector, was removed from his post Monday after serving for six years as chief patrol agent for the sector, the Bellingham Herald reports. The reason, however, remained a mystery this morning after authorities declined to say what happened. Bates was in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nine former heads of the DEA sent a strong message to Attorney General Eric Holder: Fight against efforts to legalize recreational marijuana in three states, the Reuters reports. Failing to say anything, they said, would suggest he condones legalization. The former officials told Holder that legalization would fly in the face of…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Yet another instance of the war on terror infringing on personal freedoms? Or a case of bureaucracy standing in the way of justice? Federal Judge Garr M. King has to make that determination. Oregon Live reports that King has delayed ruling on whether the FBI improperly gathered evidence on Portland terrorism suspect…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An Oregon man is defending his innocence after being banned from flying back into the United States, reports FOX News. After flying to Libya, Jamal Tarhuni’s native country, to distribute medicine and supplies during the country’s recent violent revolution, the 55-year-old naturalized citizen of the US was barred from boarding a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops. The oops began when the FBI in San Diego notified the Springfield, Or. cops that a man in that community had purchased a suicide kit from a 91-year-old retired science teacher in California. The FBI had raided the California woman’s home four months ago and then started — although belatedly…
