The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has classified or scheduled drugs, as well as some of their precursors, into categories depending on the drug’s potential for abuse and accepted medical use. In theory, this effort is made to keep potentially dangerous…
Category: Drug Crime
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Distribution | Drug Manufacturing
Drug offenses have become commonplace across most of the United States. As of January 2018, the, the cost of drug use on the nation’s criminal justice system is roughly $61 billion yearly. State and federal prison system are overwhelmed with…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
A 36-year-old man was recently arrested for parking an RV with a large amount of marijuana across the street from Hondo High School in Medina County.
While serving a search warrant, officers found 10 pounds of marijuana plants, dozens…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Opioid Addiction
Research has shown that tougher penalties do not deter drug abuse; that harsh penalties tend to affect the wrong people.
Against that backdrop, it is not surprising that federal lawmakers are trying to increase penalties for drug crimes related…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
A recent South Texas drug case involving multiple defendants illustrates the workings of concurrent/consecutive sentencing. The five defendants convicted in the case, including on drug trafficking charges, were sentenced to serve some of their sentences currently while others were ordered…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Immigration Crimes | Sex Crimes | Uncategorized
Many different types of crimes fall under federal laws, a vast majority of which tend to fall into just a few categories.
How so? Take a look at the numbers.
In 2016, nearly 68,000 federal cases resulted in…
2018
Category: Appeals | Drug Crime
Diddy’s Sports Bar in Houston has what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) described as “a well-documented history of narcotics sales.”
But does that mean a patron who enters the bar, stays a few minutes before leaving is…
2017
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Distribution | Drug Manufacturing
A huge proportion of drug manufacturing is conducted by cartels and other large networks of criminals. However, individuals may also participate in drug manufacture and cultivation – sometimes in surprisingly big quantities.
For example, a Louisiana couple was recently…
2017
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
The numbers are indeed alarming.
100 million Americans live with chronic pain. It is the most common cause of long-term disability in this country. Pain affects more people in the U.S. than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
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2017
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Since becoming the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has continually misrepresented to the American public that the nation is facing a violent crime wave that poses a threat to our national security.
At the 63rd Biennial Conference of…