Word: dea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trace at least some of the U.S.-produced chemicals seized in Colombia over the past two weeks. The contraband included containers marked with the logos of Dow Chemical Co. and Union Chemical Corp. Both companies are among major U.S. chemical producers who have agreed to cooperate with the DEA in seeking to ascertain the final destination of the chemicals before allowing them to leave the country. In the case of the chemicals seized in Colombia, however, most of the batch numbers on labels had been scratched off by knife blades. Given how successful drug lords have been in using...
...wielding, say, a converted Colt ; AR-15 capable of firing 900 rounds a minute; if not hit in the first fusillade, the policeman is likely to be shot while reloading. Out of that fear, police departments across the country are discarding the old .38 for semiautomatic weapons, and the DEA started a year ago to rearm its agents with the Colt SMG, a submachine gun designed by Colt Industries specifically for the agency. It is small enough to fit under a coat, yet packs quite a wallop...
DURING the mid-1970s, a "drugcourier profile" was developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration to help federal agents identify possible traffickers. According to the DEA a "typical" drug runner is someone inappropriately dressed man with a big roll of cash who acts nervous around police. Unfortunately, this technique, which has led to scores of arrests across the country, is leading to the violation or infringement upon our basic civil rights...
...most valuable discovery: a 1933 $10 eagle gold piece now worth $80,000 or more. The map, said the DEA last week, turned up in the home of a wind- surfing drug merchant known as "Colorado Bill" and "King Midas." Bill (the DEA is withholding his full name) can follow the auction from his cell in Lompoc, Calif., where he is doing 17 years for drug trafficking...
Ironically, the judge found marijuana useful in relieving nausea induced by chemotherapy and muscle spasms of multiple sclerosis but not in treating glaucoma, the disease of Robert Randall, whose legal battle with the DEA sparked the case. Randall gets his daily prescribed dose of marijuana from a pharmacy in Washington that is supplied by a federal farm in Mississippi. He believes the evidence before his eyes. "It's been twelve years," says Randall, who was expected to lose his eyesight by 1977, "and I haven't gone blind...