DEA Makes 90 Arrests in War on Synthetic Drugs
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Less than a month after President Obama banned the sale, production, and possession of the synthetic drugs known as bath salts, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced Thursday that it has made 90 arrests in a nationwide “sy…
DEA: American Airlines Workers Smuggled Cocaine into Miami, New York
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In the latest arrests of U.S. airport workers on drug smuggling charges, authorities charged that two rings of nearly 50 corrupt employees at Puerto Rico’s main airport smuggled thousands of kilograms of cocaine ont…
Colombia Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Spreads to the DEA
Eric Kayne/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A month after the Secret Service was rocked by allegations that agents brought prostitutes to a Colombia hotel where they were preparing for a visit by President Obama, the Drug Enforcement Administration Monday a…
Student Abandoned in DEA Cell for 5 Days to Sue for $20 Million
Kevin Horan/Stone(SAN DIEGO) — A 23-year-old California college student who was left in a dark federal detention cell for five days without food, water, or a toilet has filed a claim against the U.S. government for $20 million.The lawyer for Daniel Ch…
DEA Moves Against Major Pharmaceutical Distributor
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Twenty-five hundred pharmacies in the southeast could lose their supplies of oxycodone and other prescription drugs because the federal Drug Enforcement Agency believes the company that supplies them, Cardinal Heal…