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1 hr ago | Sterling on Justice & Drugs

DEA's addiction to a lying informant

Sometimes it seems that the U.S. Department of Justice is dedicated to undermining the trust of the American people in our system of justice.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

KNEB-AM Scottsbluff

New York Mom Accused of Running $3 Million Marijuana Operation Indicted

A suburban mother of two accused of running a sophisticated $3 million marijuana enterprise out of a New York warehouse was slapped with a federal indictment on Tuesday by prosecutors who said her operation was no different than that of Colombian druglords.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Scarsdale, NY, Weeds, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mary-Louise Parker, Celebrities

KOLD-TV Tucson

Arraignment today for Cochise County drug ring suspects

This all stems from a year-long investigation into a rather large cocaine trafficking operation.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Cochise County, AZ, Tucson, AZ

Washington Times

Feds target contacts of DEA agent's killer

The Treasury Department has targeted under the "Kingpin Act" 18 persons and five companies tied to a Mexican drug trafficker convicted in the brutal 1985 kidnapping and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent - prohibiting U.S. residents from conducting financial or commercial transactions with them and freezing any assets they have ... (more)

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Related Topix: Drugs, World News, Mexico,

Chattanoogan.com

Gormanson Charged In Traffic Death Of 20-Year-Old Christopher Blake Hicks

Dominick Gormanson, 20, has been charged in the June 29, 2012, traffic death of Christopher Blake Hicks, 20, of Ringgold.

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Related Topix: Fayetteville, TN, Chattanooga, TN

Drugs.com

AMRI Burlington Receives DEA Approval to Handle Controlled Substances

AMRI announced today that its Burlington, Mass., site has received approval to expand its current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration registration to handle Schedule 2 and 2N controlled substances.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Albany Molecular Research, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

The Newark Star-Ledger

Black market steroids pipeline leads from N.J. to China, feds say

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer inspecting packages shipped from overseas at the Kennedy Airport International Mail Facility, where seizures of steroids from China are increasing.

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Related Topix: Prison, New York

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Man mailed Ecstasy from Canada in supplement containers, feds say

Federal drug agents opened the container of bodybuilding supplement to find a powdered substance.

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Related Topix: Weight Training, Fitness, Prison

Mon Jun 17, 2013

New York Magazine

Rikers Guards Busted Dealing Pot to Inmates

Two Rikers guards busted in a two-year DEA probe for selling drugs and other contraband met their downfall thanks to a jailhouse snitch, The New York Post reports .

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Related Topix: Sports

Boston.com

Hitman John Martorano expected to face a Whitey' Bulger at reputed gangster's trial today

John Martorano, the self-confessed killer of at least 20 people, admitted today he has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars selling his life story and thousands more from the federal government after agreeing to testify against notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger and other members of Bulger's Winter Hill Gang.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA

Times-Standard

Three-year Humboldt-Utah pot investigation leads to bust

On 06-11-2013 and 6-12-2013 the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, United States Forest Service, United States Marshal Office assisted the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration Metro Narcotics Task Force and the Davis Metro Narcotic Strike Force out of Salt Lake City, Utah regarding a 3 year long marijuana ... (more)

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Related Topix: Drugs, Humboldt County, CA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Eureka, CA

News Times

Police: man stole electricity to grow pot

A Bronx, N.Y. man has been arrested on larceny and drug charges for allegedly using stolen electricity to power grow lights at a marijuana farm.

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Related Topix: Drugs

Examiner.com

How the drug war is racist in its' results, if not intent.

I. John Dryden is a teacher who told his students they didn't have to answer a questionaire on drug use.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Education Etc.

Examiner.com

LEAP member Patrick Heintz speaks on mandatory/minimum sentences for drug crimes

LEAP representative Patrick Heintz , former Correctional Officer, discusses the failed "War on Drugs" and the absurd mandatory/minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders in a video posted with this article.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Prison, Marijuana

The Courier

23 indicted for drug trafficking

Federal and state authorities say 23 people have been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in western Arkansas.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Fort Smith, AR

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Ghanamma.com

Investigate arrest of Sohin Security CEO - Nyaho-Tamakloe

Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a leading functionary of the New Patriotic Party, has called for a dispassionate public enquiry into the arrest of the Sohin Security CEO, Solomon Adelaquaye, by the US Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States.

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Hispanically Speaking

Treasury Sanctions Mexican Traffickers Tied to Camarena Murder

The DEA today announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated 18 individuals and 15 entities linked to Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug trafficker.

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Related Topix: Drugs

St. Augustine Record

Our view: Complacency is the enemy

There's both good and bad in the news reported earlier this week detailing an undercover drug investigation involving the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Opinion

Sunday Punch

Bonuan Binloc, No.1 drug hub

DAGUPAN City may no longer simply be notorious for being a hub for illegal drug trading, but also home to a drug laboratory and or a major drug financier.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson Kansas

Detective who testified in DEA beating appeals

A former Kansas City, Kan., police detective filed an appeal Friday after losing a lawsuit in which he claimed he was punished for refusing to conceal a motorist's beating by federal agents.

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Related Topix: Kansas City, KS, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Wyandotte County, KS