Crime Sift

The DEA has released a slide show called DEA-A Year in Pictures. The following three were my favorites. Maybe they should consider releasing a yearly calendar.
January 26, 2006: DEA and ICE agents uncovered a massive cross-border drug tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico. The cement lined passage linked warehouses in Tijuana, […]

Gift Cards are being identified as an advantageous resource for organized crime and terrorists who are required to move currency to conduct their activities. Both store specific and muti-merchant gift cards have been identified by the Drug Enforcement Agency as a money laundering threat. Both the RCMP and the FBI are concurring with the […]

A couple of recent articles published by Spiegel Online International, Mountains of Coke Along the Rhine and New York Blows Away the Competition sparked my curiosity.
Up to this point statistics in relation to cocaine consumption have come from two sources primarily, law enforcement and treatment centers. It is not difficult to imagine that trying […]

This comes from the Northwest and a site called Moving Meat.
Moving Meat describes itself as the accidental blog of a semi-accidental Emergency Room doctor living in the Pacific Northwest. In this case correctional officers bring in an inmate they believe to be concealing drugs on her person. The inmate was agitated so a […]

Canadian Law Enforcement announced this week that they dealt a serious blow to traditional organized crime with the raids carried out in the Montréal region. Ninety persons, including Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Francesco Arcadi and Rocco Sollecito, will face close to 1,000 charges. These charges were laid thanks to Project Colisée, the purpose of which […]