DEA Warns Cocaine Is Making a Comeback As Coca Production Rises
Cocaine is making a comeback.
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‘El Chapo’s Cartel Influence Continues to Be Strong in U.S. After His Prison Escape
Although Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was jailed and escaped from a Mexican prison in July, his Sinaloa cartel continues to traffic drugs across the border on a massive scale.
Al Jazeera: Obama Should Commute Stiff Sentences of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
By Daniel Denzir Al Jazeera Last month Don McIntosh, a journalist and friend of mine in Portland, Ore., posted on Facebook that his half brother Daniel McIntosh had just been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for selling 954 kilograms of marijuana and money laundering as part of a 16-member pot-selling ring. “Our…
Drug Traffickers Increasingly Taking to High Seas to Avoid Driving Across U.S. Border
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Drug smugglers are a stubborn bunch. When security is tight, smugglers find another way into the country. The Associated Press reports that drug traffickers are increasingly using boats to reach the U.S. They take the Pacific Ocean from Mexico and South America to California. Smugglers likely are finding the task easier too…
FBI Busts Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy for Selling Pot Out of Squad Car
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Georgia sheriff’s deputy is accused of peddling pot from his squad car. The FBI said Darrell Mathis, 40, sold a pound of marijuana to an undercover agent and then coordinated a drug-selling scheme with another agent, the New York Daily News reports. That scheme involved Mathis transporting pot to another state,…
Unusual Rift Between ATF, Justice Department Draws FBI, DEA to Help with Firearm Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and DEA have stepped in to help investigate weapons cases after federal prosecutors in Nevada stopped working with the ATF, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. But the newspaper said neither agency is probing firearm sales or trafficking cases, leaving the state with little protection. Gun data obtained by the Gazette-Journal shows…
DEA Shakes Up Drug Trafficking in Central America
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is shaking up the drug war in Central America following two lethal DEA-related shootings of suspected Honduras drug smugglers, The Global Post reports. The shooting deaths of trafficking suspects on June 23 and July 3 is part of a new DEA mission called “Operation Anvil” in which U.S. agents team up…
Feds Convict Lt. to Colombian Drug Kingpin
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A top lieutenant to a Colombian drug kingpin was convicted in a Manhattan court this week of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and heroine, according to a Justice Department press release. Jose Mosquera-Prado, 36, was a top lieutenant in Francisco Gonzalez Uribe’s international narcotics-trafficking organization, says the Justice Department, and…
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