U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

No Arrests Yet, But The DEA Did Raid Local Rapper Dorrough's Home Yesterday Morning

Dorrough​In Dorrough's words, his day yesterday "started off fucked up." But that's just how things tend to go when your home earns an unannounced visit from the Drug Enforcement Agency.Yesterday morning, a group of DEA agents raided the Dallas rapper's home on suspicions of drug trafficking. The ... More >>

Head of Pot Distribution "Conspiracy" That Included Ex-Cowboy Gets 24 Years in Prison

University of Notre DameBob Davie, then coach at Notre Dame, with a freshman Kurt Vollers back in '97 ​In April 2009, John Patrick Newton was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for growing, storing and selling marijuana out of an apartment on N. MacArthur Boulevard inIrving. Said t ... More >>

Four Months After DEA's "Operation Greedy Grove" Drugs and Gang Sweep, a Guilty Plea

​Back in September, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it had arrested several alleged members of "violent local street gangs," which included the Highland Hills Posse and the NFL Boyz. Among those snapped up during "Operation Greedy Grove" was 31-year-old Ronald Alexander, otherwi ... More >>

Complete the Streets! And Sell Executive Airport While Yer At It! A Liveblog In Progress.

A Downtown Dallas 360 rendering, which also graces today's Complete Streets briefing. Because they are, you see, related. Very.​Afternoon, Friends. Thanks for tuning into today's liveblog of the Transportation and Environment Committee meeting up here in City Hall, during which we'll hear about pl ... More >>

Five Plead Guilty to Running "Elaborate," Expensive Pot-Growing Op in Northwest Dallas

​This just in from the U.S. Attorney General's Office: From the summer of '05 till December '08, five locals were running out of three Northwest Dallas houses an "elaborate marijuana growing operation" that was eventually busted up by the Drug Enforcement Agency. They had three houses -- one each ... More >>

Six Months After La Familia Bust, Dallas Boss Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking

Kimberly ThorpeSome of the drugs and money seized by law-enforcement officials in the fall of 2009​We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard -- and every other law-enforcing acronym -- ... More >>

When the DEA Busted Up La Familia, They Hauled In Plenty of Guns, Drugs and Dough

Photos by Kimberly Thorpe​You're looking at 220 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.5 kilos of cocaine and $660,000 in cash; there was also quite the assortment of machine guns hauled in. The whole stash was seized in North Texas yesterday from more than 80 members of a violent Mexican drug cartel known ... More >>

Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL ... More >>

"West Texas Puro Tango Blast" -- Not As Much Fun As It Sounds

Only a few days ago, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about Texas' Tango Blast gang, which was formed within the confines of the state's penitentiaries and "could change the Dallas landscape because it rejects old notions of prison gang exclusivity and lifelong commitments," wrote Tanya Eiserer. ... More >>

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Morning Announcements

Send Lawyers, Guns and Money (And Drugs, Lots of Drugs)

Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop

Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas

Dallas Flashes Back to 1997

A Trinity River vote, the return of the Citizens Council, a corruption case at City Hall. Buzz is confused. Was this 2007 or 1997?

Smack in the Middle of Northwest Dallas

Family Shattered After Oscar Sanchez's Murder

Sanchez's family thought they'd left the lawlessness of Mexico behind. But somehow it caught up with them.

A "House of Death" Lawsuit is No Mas

Weed Killers

DEA agents see Mexican cartels behind huge pot farms here

High on the Trinity River

Denton Calling

Rubber Gloves has survived a decade of decadence

Kicking Down the Door at the "House of Death"

House of Death

A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez. Three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.

Here's a Tip For You

Voodoo Vibes | Byzantium, Texas | Quagmire

Bad Mojo

Evil spirits walk in the criminal world

Everybody's Narcing on The News

Undercover of the Night

Violent shoot-outs and dangerous love in Mann's visceral cop-series update

Get Thee Behind Me, Cookie

The Other Farmers Market

Local marijuana growers cash inon well-heeled tokers' love of fine weed

Generation Rx

Adrift in a sea of psychotropic pharmacology, it's easy for a kid to drown.

Letters

Letters

Moby DEA

Call me Ishmael. Just give me the damn audit!

Fake Justice

What you get when a fake panel investigates fake drugs

Heavy Traffic

Border drug lords get rich while attorney Mike Barclay gets worn out defending the poor smugglers

Dirty or Duped?

Who's to blame for the fake-drug scandal rocking Dallas police? Virtually everyone.

Joint Effort

"Aging hippies" team with the desperately ill and one lawmaker to fight for medical marijuana in Texas. Is that just a smoke screen?

American High

With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable drug war

The Agony And The Ecstasy

Until his arrest, Sandy Pofahl was the king of Dallas' '80s ecstacy scene. Then why did he serve only four years while his "blindly loyal" wife, Amy, was sentenced to 24? Because she asked for it.

The Enforcer

Baylor grad Keith Bishop played in three Superbowls. Ten years later, he's become a star again -- this time, by fighting Dallas drug dealers.

Sex, drugs, and city council

Federal court records reveal the connection between city council ethics and dry-humping

Buzz

How can we miss you...; And take Julio with you; Penny pinchers; Bad timing; Turnabout is fair play

Blood Vow

When investigators uncovered the bodies of a Dallas mother and her young son in a makeshift Oklahoma grave, FBI agent Tase Bailey swore to bring the killer to justice

Bad trip

As anguished Plano watched heroin pick off its children one by one, a cry went up for police to do anything to stop the deadly plague. Months later, some parents say they went too far.

Letters

Letters

Busted

Julio Mercado is Dallas' brand-new DEA boss, and he's inherited kilos of trouble. His city is about to be declared a drug disaster zone, but all his narcs seem to care about is snitching on each other.

Air disaster

Bruckheimer production comes complete with all his Con-temptible traits

Bad Company

Drugs from Bolivia. Cash to Panama. Arms to Nicaragua. Bo Abbott says the CIA called - and he delivered.

Buzz