Posts Tagged ‘enforcement’

Prostitute Probe Launched on Agents

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Three members of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Prostitute Probe Launched on Agents

Prostitution investigation for DEA agents

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, a congressional source confirms to CNN.

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California Man Left for Days in Holding Cell

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Daniel Chong, a University of California student, was swept up in a Drug Enforcement Administration raid and placed in a holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.

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Student forgotten in cell 5 days will sue

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

A San Diego student sues for damages after he was left handcuffed and without food or water in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for 5 days.

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Police Unit Faces Scrutiny After Ramarley Graham’s Death in Bronx

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

The killing of Ramarley Graham, 18, by an officer from a Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit has raised troubling questions about training and tactics.

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Occupy D.C. camp raided by police

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Six protesters were arrested in a pre-dawn raid on the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square Saturday, and police began clearing away tents, debris and some dead rodents. U.S. Park Police on horseback and on foot clad in riot gear swept into the park around 6 a.m. Several square blocks downtown were closed during the raid, which was characterized as “further enforcement” of a no-camping crackdown that began Monday . Read full article > >

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F.D.A. Is Finding Attention Drugs in Short Supply

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration has received complaints about drug shortages for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and has pointed a finger at the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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F.D.A. Is Finding Attention Drugs in Short Supply

Obama Turns to Immigration

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

President Obama is heading to the border Tuesday to give a speech on immigration reform-an early attempt to rally Hispanic support for the 2012 election. He’ll repeat his call for comprehensive immigration reform, including tougher enforcement and a…

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Ride kicks off National Police Week

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

The 16th annual Law Ride, from RFK Stadium to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, raises awareness about police officers killed in the line of duty. Read full article > >

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APNewsBreak: DEA seizes Georgia’s supply of key execution drug over import questions

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

ATLANTA — The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday seized Georgia’s supply of a key lethal injection drug less than two months after the state executed a man who unsuccessfully argued it was bought from a “fly-by-night” supplier in England.

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U.S. Men Charged With Aiding Taliban

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Seven men, including two U.S. citizens, are being charged after they tried to sell drugs and weapons to U.S. agents posing as representatives of the Taliban. Witnesses working on behalf of the Drug Enforcement Administration approached the men in Ghana…

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Police chief in Tiger’s town arrested

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Windermere, Florida, Police Chief Daniel Saylor was arrested Wednesday morning on felony charges of official misconduct and unlawful compensation for official behavior, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said.

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Feds move to ban ‘fake pot’

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

“Fake pot” products that give a marijuana-like high could be illegal in another month as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration takes emergency action to ban chemicals used to make them.

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U.S. Knew Mumbai Plotter’s Radical Ties

Monday, November 8th, 2010

A new report says the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration employed David C. Headley, who went on to plot the attacks that killed 164 people in Mumbai in 2008, as an informant in Pakistan despite several warnings that he sympathized with radical…

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DEA: Afghan raids net $56M in heroin

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Almost $56 million worth of high-quality heroin has been seized in a series of drug busts in Afghanistan, according to senior Drug Enforcement Administration officials.

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