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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Dump Unwanted Prescription Drugs This Saturday

    ​In recent years, the act of raiding mom and dad's liquor cabinet has spun off into raiding grandma's medicine cabinet for kids who want to get buzzed. "Pharm parties" have cropped up across the nation, involving prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Fentanyl and Percoset. Opiate-drug addictions, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Press Conference Today to Address Rise of Heroin in St. Louis County

    Heroin now accounts for 46 percent of police drug buys in St. Louis County.​Members of the St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association along with the DEA, prosecuting attorneys and local drug treatment centers will host a news conference today addressing the problem of heroin in the St. Louis area. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    DEA Ban Now in Effect on Chemicals for K2, Other Synthetic Marijuanas

    ​The Drug Enforcement Agency today exercised its emergency ban, first drafted back in November, on five chemicals used to make fake marijuana sold under brands such as Spice, K2, Blaze and various other names. Missouri outlawed synthetic marijuana last spring, only for other products to sprout up ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2011

    Schwag frontman Jimmy Tebeau says Camp Zoe is an idyllic campground for weekend hippie jam fests. Federal prosecutors beg to differ.

    ​The Drug Enforcement Agency today exercised its emergency ban, first drafted back in November, on five chemicals used to make fake marijuana sold under brands such as Spice, K2, Blaze and various other names. Missouri outlawed synthetic marijuana last spring, only for other products to sprout up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Missouri's New Growth Industry: Pill Brokers

    Hot new career opportunity: Popping blister packs in your car.​Unemployment got you down? There's a hot new career opportunity in Missouri -- and all it takes is a little initiative and a tiny amount of overhead.Enough overhead, that is, to buy cold medicine.As the AP reports in a story out today, ... More >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2010

    The top ten St. Louis music news stories in 2010

    Hot new career opportunity: Popping blister packs in your car.​Unemployment got you down? There's a hot new career opportunity in Missouri -- and all it takes is a little initiative and a tiny amount of overhead.Enough overhead, that is, to buy cold medicine.As the AP reports in a story out today, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Top Ten St. Louis Music News Stories of 2010

    Wikimedia Commons​As the old saying goes, no news is good news. However, no local news makes for a rather-boring music section - or music blog, as the case may be. If you aren't a regular visitor to this here music blog, definitely become one: We compile breaking news, show reviews and local t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    The 10 Dumbest Things People Have Used to Get High

    ​"I can't explain why, I just love to get high."  When Jay-Z rapped those words on the song "Allure," he probably wasn't talking about knocking back a frothy mug of reindeer piss, subjecting himself to multiple bee stings or huffing spray paint out of a paper bag.The vast majority of drug use ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Plan Ahead: Here Are Bars Open on Christmas Night in St. Louis

    ​Once the stockings are turned inside out, you've drunk your weight in Bailey's-spiked hot cocoa, and all of this forced togetherness is finally starting to try your last nerve, well, there's only one thing left to salvage your Christmas night: heavy drinking with other STL scrooges. What bars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Camp Zoe Seizure: Could Other Music Festivals Face Trouble, Too?

    Wikimedia CommonsIs this SWAT team coming to a music festival near you?​Carrie Goebel went to sleep this Halloween in her own version of paradise. She woke up to a nightmare.The 46-year-old artist from Warrenton, Missouri, spent the last weekend in October camping out at Camp Zoe's Spookstock musi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Camp Zoe Seizure: Could Other Music Festivals Face Trouble, Too?

    Wikimedia CommonsIs this SWAT team coming to a music festival near you?​Carrie Goebel went to sleep this Halloween in her own version of paradise. She woke up to a nightmare.The 46-year-old artist from Warrenton, Missouri, spent the last weekend in October camping out at Camp Zoe's Spookstock mus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    In Asset Forfeiture Cases Like Camp Zoe, Feds Help Local Police Keep Money From Missouri Schools

    Image ViaThe motto and emblem of the DEA's asset forfeiture program.​In their complaint filed earlier this month, federal prosecutors estimate that the 350-acre music venue and campground Camp Zoe is worth $600,000. The authorities say the land should be confiscated using a procedure called civil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    In Asset Forfeiture Cases Like the One at Camp Zoe, Feds Help Local Police Keep Money From Missouri Schools

    Image ViaThe motto and emblem of the DEA's asset forfeiture program.​In their complaint filed earlier this month, federal prosecutors estimate that the 350-acre music venue and campground Camp Zoe is worth $600,000. The authorities say the land should be confiscated using a procedure called civil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    This Month in Science

    image via​Here in St. Louis, lots and lots of people are working tirelessly to explain the meaning of life -- not in the philosophical sense, but literally: How does the universe work? Here are some of the discoveries they've made this month, as reported in Riverfront Times and Daily RFT: It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    DEA Bans Synthetic Marijuana Chemicals

    The DEA has outlawed these "highly abused" substances​The Drug Enforcement Administration enacted an emergency ban today on five chemicals used to manufacture "fake pot" products such as K2, Spice and Blaze. According to the agency's website, the chemicals are now listed alongside heroin, cocaine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Ass Clown of the Week: Dicks, Debt Collectors, Grandmas and Deadly Ministers

    ​It's that time of the week. Time to vote for the local yokel whose words or actions you found to be most idiotic and/or despicable this week. And the nominees...1. The Feds: A brain-trust comprising DEA agents, highway patrol officers and U.S. attorneys this week sued to seize and shut down a Mis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Attorney for Camp Zoe Calls Property Seizure "Fundamentally Unfair"

    Image viaAttorney Dan Viets​One day after Daily RFT broke the news that federal law enforcement agencies and the Missouri State Highway Patrol are attempting to seize Camp Zoe, a 350-acre campground in central Missouri that hosts the Schwagstock music festivals, the attorney for the property owner ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Update: Attorney for Camp Zoe Calls Property Seizure "Fundamentally Unfair"

    Image viaAttorney Dan Viets​One day after A to Z broke the news that federal law enforcement agencies and the Missouri State Highway Patrol are attempting to seize Camp Zoe, a 350-acre campground in central Missouri that hosts the Schwagstock music festivals, the attorney for the property own ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Camp Zoe, Site of Schwagstock, Facing Seizure After Drug Investigation

    Image via CampZoe.comA snapshot of the Schwagstock crowd.​The DEA, Missouri State Highway Patrol and U.S. Attorney's Office are trying to seize Camp Zoe, a 350-acre campground in central Missouri that hosts the music gathering Schwagstock -- after a four-year-long investigation allegedly uncovered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Camp Zoe, Site of Schwagstock, Facing Seizure After Drug Investigation

    Image via CampZoe.comA snapshot of the Schwagstock crowd.​The DEA, Missouri State Highway Patrol and U.S. Attorney's Office are trying to seize Camp Zoe, a 350-acre campground in central Missouri that hosts the music gathering Schwagstock -- after a four-year-long investigation allegedly uncovere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    St. Louis DEA: Give Us Your Pills, Pretty Please

    Image viaMmmmm...jelly beans.​Remember a few months back when you went to the dentist/doctor for something really serious and ended up with an entire bottle of super-potent painkillers? You took a few of the magic pills and your brain and body were blissfully bathed in euphoric opiate relief. Then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Fake Reefer Madness: Missouri Called the "Epicenter" of K2 "Epidemic"

    Image SourceAre women crying and men dying for K2 yet?​The sensationalism surrounding K2 and Spice synthetic marijuana was pushed to new heights this weekend with an article on the substance in USA Today.The (fairly) brief story details the efforts of "nearly a dozen states and several cities" to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Serious Weight: Dealer Sentenced for Moving 8.5 Tons of Pot Over 5 Years

    So, exactly how much is 8.5 tons of pot? Obligatory photograph of pot.Answer: 17,000 pounds or 7,711 kilograms or 103 Michael Phelpses or 38,555 copies of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon or 453,592 Twinkies or 131,949 White Castle Sliders. That's how much mary jane an East St. Louis drug de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Ricky Griffin Sr: Sentenced to 24 Years in Prison for Selling Weed

    Image viaThat's what Ricky Griffin said.​​Ricky Griffin Sr., a 43-year-old man from Collinsville, was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison for his "role in marijuana conspiracy." According to a press release from the Southern Illinois U.S. Attorney's office, "The conspiracy operated ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2010

    RFT readers abhor Peeping Toms, particularly the one in Dardenne Prairie, who they blame for the feud that's long divided a quiet neighborhood

    Image viaThat's what Ricky Griffin said.​​Ricky Griffin Sr., a 43-year-old man from Collinsville, was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison for his "role in marijuana conspiracy." According to a press release from the Southern Illinois U.S. Attorney's office, "The conspiracy operated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Missouri State Troopers Nab 3,700 Pounds of Marijuana

    Missouri Highway PatrolA file photo from a 2009 Missouri bust that netted just 1,350 pounds of pot.​Updated: 3:27 p.m.Just spoke to Sgt. Jim Haggett of the Missouri Highway Patrol's Troop E. Haggett informs that while large, Sunday's bust of 3,669 pounds of pot is shy of the record 4,100 pounds of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    St. Louis NORML Chapter Holding "Prince of Pot" Protest Tomorrow

    www.seattleweekly.comMarc Emery: The Baron of the Bong​Marc Emery calls himself "The Prince of Pot." Others have dubbed him "The Johnny Appleseed of the Sticky." The Vancouver, British Columbia native has earned both titles. He is the editor of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Accused Drug Dealer from Rural Missouri Lived Life Like Episode of Miami Vice

    Where were you guys?​The only characters missing from a drug case made public yesterday in federal court in St. Louis were detectives James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs.  According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Daniel Bryan Webster, a car dealer from Stanton, Missouri, (approximately 60 miles ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2009

    Hornswoggled!: Welcome to Gerald, Missourah — the town that did just fall off the turnip truck

    Where were you guys?​The only characters missing from a drug case made public yesterday in federal court in St. Louis were detectives James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs.  According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Daniel Bryan Webster, a car dealer from Stanton, Missouri, (approximately 60 miles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Hey St. Louis! Did Your Bling Get Confiscated in a Drug Bust? The DEA Wants to Know.

    Lose your Cadillac Escalade in a drug bust, and you're a completely innocent party? The DEA wants to know!For the past several weeks the Drug Enforcement Administration has been running advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications asking people to identify thousands of i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    TSA Detains Ron Paul Campaigner at Lambert; Asks Him: "Are You From This Planet?"

    Remember that controversial memo Missouri officials circulated to law enforcement this February? You know, the one that lumped followers of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty (and other political organizations) as possible militia members? campaignforliberty.comSteve BierfeldtWell, that memo is getting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Medical Marijuana Comes to the Midwest

    http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CMAG/938-022~Marijuana-Posters.jpgStarting next month, residents of Michigan will be able to petition their doctor for a pot prescription of up to twelve plants. Michigan is the first non-coastal state east of the Rocky Mountains to enact such a law.Techn ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2009

    Pot Hole: A southwest Missouri hamlet is leading the latest fight to legalize medical marijuana

    http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CMAG/938-022~Marijuana-Posters.jpgStarting next month, residents of Michigan will be able to petition their doctor for a pot prescription of up to twelve plants. Michigan is the first non-coastal state east of the Rocky Mountains to enact such a law.Techn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2008

    Lock 'Em Down Records CEO Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges

    http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CMAG/938-022~Marijuana-Posters.jpgStarting next month, residents of Michigan will be able to petition their doctor for a pot prescription of up to twelve plants. Michigan is the first non-coastal state east of the Rocky Mountains to enact such a law.Techn ... More >>

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Lock 'Em Down, Lock 'Em Up

    Did Lock 'Em Down Records exec Dewanzel Singleton lead a well-choreographed double life, or did the DEA finger an innocent man?

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    Guilt-Edged

    Pugnacious defense attorney Frank "Tony" Fabbri never backed away from a fight. Then the lawyer ran afoul of the law.

  • Film

    July 26, 2006

    Undercover of the Night

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

  • Calendar

    November 9, 2005

    Avoid Mall Rats

    Shop on Sunday night

  • News

    July 6, 2005

    Too Many Cooks

    Missouri’s days as the nation’s Meth Lab Capital are numbered. So what’s next?

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2004

    Planet-Wide Party

    The earth has given a lot to you, so come on out and celebrate its special day

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    Is Avoiding Sexually Transmitted Disease a Major Concern?

    Week of October 1, 2003

  • Film

    April 2, 2003

    Film Openings

    Week of April 2, 2003

  • News

    January 29, 2003

    Dumb & Dumber

    If they'd sold drugs on a street corner, punishment would have been swift. Instead, they used the Internet -- and the party lasted for years.

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    Losing the Battle and the War

    Were the Jack in the Box killings a crime or just sloppy police work in the name of the war on drugs?

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    Who's Next?

    Annette Green didn't have to die. Her death was a tragedy waiting to happen in St. Louis County's reckless war against two-bit drug dealers and addicts.

  • Film

    January 3, 2001

    American High

    With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable war

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000

    Best Scandal

    Bel-Ridge Police

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Anti-Community Policing

    St. Louis County cops earn the distrust of African-Americans

  • Music

    February 16, 2000

    Hard Copy

    A new Web site dishes dirt -- a lot of dirt -- on the St. Louis rave scene

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    News of the Weird

    A new Web site dishes dirt -- a lot of dirt -- on the St. Louis rave scene

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