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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Los Angeles police officers enter a house during a joint operation in 2009. Jae C. Hong/AP Officials in Los Angeles have asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents working in the city not to identify themselves as police.
Powdered heroin is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. REUTERS/US DEA/Handout via Reuters Police busted a massive drug operation that distributed heroin cut with fentanyl on school property and caused the overdose death of a pregnant woman.
Fisher served as executive director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics from 2005-2014, where he oversaw the state's largest methamphetamine bust and provided staff for Mississippi's first comprehensive intelligence center. Most recently, he served as state director for the Mississippi Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's abrupt exit to face charges in the U.S. marks the end of an era in which he was Mexico's most notorious drug cartel boss and, for some, the stuff of folk legend. It's also seen by many in Mexico as a delicately timed maneuver aimed at limiting political fallout for President Enrique Pena Nieto, already deeply unpopular in part for his perceived mishandling of Donald Trump's tough rhetoric on Mexico.
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Seven U.S. senators sharply criticized the Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday for failing to answer questions about enforcement actions against pharmaceutical companies accused of violating laws designed to prevent painkillers from reaching the black market. "We received an insufficient response that ignored those questions almost entirely and recited boilerplate information about the DEA's mission," said the letter to the acting DEA administrator, Chuck Rosenberg.
Donald Trump is rolling out a policy he thinks will solve the opioid crisis in the U.S. Trump gave a speech yesterday in New Hampshire, where he lamented how many people were getting addicted to opiates, then overdosing. Trump's solution to the problem was, of course, ending illegal immigration.
Special Agent Jack Bennett was at the FBI's computer investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia, on a Sunday in March when an outside company showed the bureau how it could hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The tool would end the FBI's high-profile fight with Apple over access to the phone, but Bennett said there was no celebration.
After the Drug Enforcement Administration announced an "emergency" ban on kratom at the end of August, a spokesman for the agency said "our goal is to make sure this is available." The spokesman, Melvin Patterson, also told The Washington Post kratom does not belong in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the law's most restrictive category, even though that is where the DEA had just put it.
More than 50 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency urging the federal agency to halt an emergency push to ban the coffee-related herb kratom by as early as Friday ). A related letter by the 51 U.S. House Members also has been sent to the Office of Management and Budget .
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced Thursday that national police have compiled a new list of public officials with ties to the nation's illicit drug trade, and that he is preparing to make the over one thousand names public, with the blessing of Congress. "The final report is there.
Easterly Government Properties Inc. Director James E. Mead acquired 4,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 17th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of $19.18 per share, for a total transaction of $76,720.00.
Education: I graduated from Royal High School in Simi Valley, California in 1981 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1982. My law enforcement education started with the Limited Reserve Officer's Basic Course from September 1 to December 15, 1985 and the Basic Peace Officer Course from January 9, to May 11, 1986, both of which I attended at Arizona Western College.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is crucial to liberty because it protects the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." America's founders had just fought a revolution against a tyrant, King George III, whose troops routinely kicked in doors without warrants.
Libertarians in Florida will have more to choose on Primary Day than just issues, they will select their candidate for U.S. Senate -- a first for Florida Libertarians. The match-up is between Augustus Invictus and Paul Stanton who both qualified this week which ended at Noon on June 24, 2016, for all candidates running in Florida.
It might have been launched with the best of intentions during the Reagan administration, but the so-called "war on drugs" has been used more times as justification for violating Americans' constitutional rights than it is possible to count. And the government still persists in utilizing anti-drug policy to invade our privacy.
In April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said that it would review marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug, considered the "most dangerous class" of substances. While the DEA's announcement is a positive sign, many drug-policy experts think that it's unlikely the agency will actually decide to change marijuana's classification, despite a dramatic shift in public sentiment about the drug.