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Special Units

Chicago Feds Indict Mexican Drug Cartel Leaders

Calling it the most significant narcotics conspiracy case of its kind ever in Chicago, authorities today announced indictments against leaders of warring Mexican drug cartels blamed for increasing violence south of the border and for bringing up to four tons of cocaine to the city each month for national distribution.

August 19, 2009

Special Units

Colombian Cartel Leader Heads to Prison For 45 Years

At its peak, the Norte Valle Cartel was responsible for 60 percent of the cocaine exported from Colombia to the U.S. Between 1990 and 2004, the cartel exported more than 1.2 million pounds, or 500 metric tons, of cocaine worth more than $10 billion.

August 11, 2009

Special Units

DEA Arrests Top La Familia Cartel Member

Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a key member of La Familia Michoacana, one of Mexico's most ruthless and violent drug cartels, acting Administrator Michele Leonhart announced today.

August 2, 2009

Patrol

New Trend in Drug Smuggling: Juvenile 'Mules' Who are U.S. Citizens

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested the teenagers, all U.S. citizens, on Thursday and Friday at the San Ysidro and Calexico ports of entry. Agents seized roughly 17 pounds of marijuana and just over a pound of brown heroin, worth an estimated $38,000, officials said.

July 20, 2009

Patrol

Border Agents Reporting Record Drug Seizures

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reporting record drug seizures for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2009, which ended June 30. The agency seized 3.3 million pounds of drugs.

July 16, 2009

Patrol

California Tax Board Says Legal Pot Could Raise $1.4 Billion

California could see a nearly $1.4 billion per year increase in state revenues were it to legalize marijuana, the state Board of Equalization says in an analysis of pending legislation to to do that.

July 16, 2009

Patrol

Deputies Exonerated In Shooting of Mayor's Dogs

The Prince George's County sheriff's office has concluded that SWAT deputies did nothing wrong when they charged into the home of the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a drug investigation last summer and fatally shot his family's two dogs, the Washington Post reports.

June 23, 2009

Patrol

Officer Indicted in "Ace Capone" Drug Case

A Philadelphia police detective is being charged with obstruction of justice for using an FBI-issued cell phone to make the call that he knew would warn a drug kingpin that a law enforcement raid was about to go down, and then lying about it to investigators.

June 17, 2009

Patrol

California Backers of Legal Pot Eye 2010 Ballot Initiative

With polls showing the legalization of marijuana gaining public support, and a state budget crisis fueling an ever-more-desperate search for revenue, backers of the first major statewide initiative to legalize marijuana for personal use - and allow counties to tax and regulate the drug—say they're preparing to get the matter on the November 2010 ballot.

June 10, 2009

Patrol

Legalizing Marijuana: Chronic Confusion

Some cops say marijuana is not benign; it's a gateway drug that leads users to harder narcotics. Others say policing its use and sale wastes precious law enforcement resources.

May 31, 2009

Technology

Face2Face

Abalone LLC

Abalone LLC is working with the Mendocino County (Calif.) Sheriff’s Office to show children how their faces would age after long-term methamphetamine use. Abalone’s compact 3D imaging Face2Face System uses off-the-shelf digital cameras mounted on a stereo bar to take two identical images offset from each other by a few degrees.

May 31, 2009

Patrol

Ex-Charlotte Officers Get Nine Years for Shielding Drug Dealer

Former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Gerald Holas and Jason Ross, accused of protecting a drug dealer, were each sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine.

May 27, 2009