Over a six-year period, the agency collected “tens of thousands of records, including the names, addresses, and phone numbers” from sellers of money counters.
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Former DEA Official Now A Paid Consultant For Purdue Pharma
Insiders wonder if the former DEA official anticipated becoming a paid consultant for Big Pharma when she was with the agency.
DEA Plans To Burn Tons Of Marijuana This Summer
Tons of seized marijuana will go up in smoke in the coming months.
Top DEA Agent Accused Of Laundering Over $7 Million In Drug Money
The former DEA agent allegedly kept $7 million of money laundered from drug sales in a business account. A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent who oversaw a high-profile undercover operation has been linked to a $7 million money-laundering scheme involving Colombian drug cartels. Five current and former law enforcement officials told the AP that Jose Irizarry—who left… Continue reading Top DEA Agent Accused Of Laundering Over $7 Million In Drug Money
Doctor Accused Of Prescribing Pills Linked To Overdose Deaths
The doctor’s prescription writing was allegedly so extreme that a local CVS stopped accepting prescriptions he wrote. There’s a lot of attention on the so-called “third wave” of the opioid epidemic, synthetic opioids, but the arrest of a California doctor this week for allegedly illegally distributing prescription pills shows that medications are still a dangerous… Continue reading Doctor Accused Of Prescribing Pills Linked To Overdose Deaths
DEA Wants More Medical Marijuana, Fewer Opioids To Be Produced In 2019
The new quotas are in line with the federal government’s goal of cutting opioid prescriptions by one-third in three years. When setting quotas for marijuana and opioid production for 2019, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) did the unexpected. The DEA is raising the quota of cannabis that can be grown in the United States from… Continue reading DEA Wants More Medical Marijuana, Fewer Opioids To Be Produced In 2019