The Drug Enforcement Administration held a meeting with the US sales arm of NSO Group, a controversial malware company whose products can remotely siphon data from iPhones and other devices, according to internal DEA emails The company’s main product is Pegasus, a sophisticated piece of smartphone malware that can intercept phone calls, emails, and text…
The Lane County Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team is disbanding, effective immediately. The four officers and one sergeant on the team were each funded by their parent agencies. Equipment, building leases for operations and drug-buying money are funded by state and federal forfeitures. Dollar amounts for state and federal funding were not immediately available. But those…
…One mother wails, turning to the camera. “Please! Tell [this] to the whole world. Please help me! He’s not a dog, my son. He’s not a dog or a pig to kill like them.” [The film] shows graphic images of Philippine police examining and carting off dead bodies, and grieving communities struggling to cope…
Jeff Session’s has appeared eager to crack down on marijuana as attorney general. “The task force’s recommendations reflect the fact that the Dept. of Justice has more important priorities than harassing legitimate, taxpaying businesses. In states that have approved marijuana for medical or adult use, these businesses are creating jobs, generating revenue, protecting consumers, and…
This time, Dutch police have upped the ante by craftily tracking dark net users, and that’s expected to yield future arrests. They began running the Hansa site on June 20, impersonating its administrators, collecting usernames and passwords, logging data on thousands of drug sales and informing local police in nations where shipments would be…
Critics of civil asset forfeiture should be heartened by this ruling. Not only did it vindicate the legal standing of innocent people fighting for the return of their own money, it shows that the lower courts are starting to heed Justice Thomas’ call to arms against asset forfeiture abuse …. The Supreme Court offered no…
On April 22nd 2005, a British court sentenced Casey Hardison to imprisonment for making MDMA and LSD. A forensic chemist from the Forensic Science Service described Hardison’s DIY lab ‘as the most complex he had ever encountered’. Hardison however has consistently argued that he is the victim of one of the biggest injustices of the…
Finally in 2010, at the age of 65 and facing 15 years, I presented myself at the U.S. Embassy and turned myself in…I’m very proud of my life. I believe that manufacturing MDMA and Heaven was the right thing to do. Even though I have not taken any psychedelics since 1991, I feel that the…
Simply put: Osborne’s business made Dodge look forward to an afterlife, and she found peace in this life. And, to bring it back to business, Osborne’s business is succeeding. He says his retreats are filling up fast. He makes more now than when he grew shrooms illegally. He pays taxes, and supports three kids.…
…news that Dutch police and officials from Europol also secretly took control of Hansa, another dark web marketplace, weeks before AlphaBay shut down. That means the authorities were secretly in charge of Hansa when former AlphaBay users came over there looking for a new sight. This operation over the past month has given authorities…
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