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DEA whistleblower says agency allowed millions of fentanyl pills on the streets
As New Mexico officials sounded alarms this month about a growing fentanyl crisis, a veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent has alleged the agency has contributed to the problem by allowing the deadly pills to reach the streets.
“For three years, I’ve told my DEA managers that we’re allowing dangerous amounts of fentanyl to hit the street, and we’re doing nothing to stop it, and they didn’t listen to me,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told CBS News in his first television interview.
Howell, who is still an active agent, claims the agency tasked with enforcing federal drug laws has allowed millions of fentanyl pills to “walk” — a tactic in which investigators allow drug traffickers to distribute their product and then follow the trail to build bigger cases.
But because fentanyl is so lethal, Howell said the tactic has done more harm than good.
“We at the DEA have let drugs hit the street, yes. The difference was we were told not to with fentanyl,” he said.
In 2023, Howell was part of a team tracking a suspect in Albuquerque from the air. Images obtained by CBS News from congressional investigators on the House Oversight Committee showed a person driving a white SUV picking up a child.
Not again! Another senior cop in the GTA charged with serious criminal offences
Not again. Yes, again!
Another senior police officer in the Greater Toronto Area has been criminally charged with several serious offences. The charges include:
- possessing property obtained by crime
- possessing for the purpose of trafficking
- breach of trust
- breach of trust in accessing data
- unauthorized use of a computer
- possessing a counterfeit stamp
- AND attempting to obstruct justice
Sgt. Kin Pong Wong, 44, who recently worked as a front-line patrol sergeant for the York Regional Police Service, was arrested on Oct. 23. His arrest followed an investigation by both York and Peel Regional Police.
In a news release, York Regional Police noted that Wong has been employed with the force since 2009 and that he has since been suspended with pay. (Isn’t that another descriptor for “paid vacation”? But we digress…)
Granted, Peel Police are assisting this investigation into a York copper. But given the torrent of police corruption stories of late, is anyone 100 per cent satisfied that this investigation will be fair and square? At the end of the day, this is yet again another story of police investigating other police. Isn’t this an inherent conflict of interest from the get-go?
Rebel News recently dropped by York Regional Police headquarters in Aurora, Ont., looking for answers. For starters, we experienced a feeling of déjà vu. The last time we visited headquarters was back in February, regarding the Project South investigation. This was the shocking investigation in which several members of the Toronto Police Service were charged with serious crimes ranging from bribery and drug trafficking to extortion and even conspiracy to commit murder. (Police told CP24 the charges against Wong are not related to Project South.)
Both the York and Toronto brass hosted the presser, and Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw reiterated that moving forward the cops would be committed to “transparency” and “accountability” to restore public trust.
Really?
Because when cameraman Lincoln Jay and I showed up to attend the presser, we were denied entry. We were even threatened with arrest for filming OUTSIDE police headquarters!
For starters, does that seem “transparent” and “accountable” to you? Apparently, only members of the government-funded media were allowed to attend.
Secondly, this “law” that we were allegedly breaking by filming outside a police station? There is no such law. It’s just a bogus rule that the cops use to intimidate people, and it’s completely unenforceable. So again, we must ponder: where’s the “transparency”? Where’s the “accountability”?
At the end of the day, the Wong matter boils down to yet another disturbing story of a police officer allegedly breaking the law, resulting in police policing police. And so it is that we must yet again defer to our favourite Latin phrase: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: Who guards the guardians?
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Jack Herer on the War on (Some) Drugs
You Can’t Make This Up: Daughter of Indicted Virginia Democrat Wrote Big Check to Illicit Drug Shell Company Called “Freedom is Dope” that Later BOUNCED – Then the State Legislator Wrote a Replacement Check
More details have emerged regarding last week’s federal indictment of Virginia State Democratic Senator L. Louise Lucas, which show just how boneheaded she and her family had to be to get busted.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra MacDonald reported, federal authorities charged the Trump-hating 82-year-old Lucas on Thursday with racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, and gun possession as part of an alleged public corruption scheme tied to a cannabis business that she co-owns.
A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed that Lucas turned herself in to the authorities and was arrested.
Per Fox News’s Bill Melugin, members of Lucas’ family were also busted by the feds.
Authorities also charged and took into custody a half-dozen others in the alleged scheme.
Now, more details have emerged that paint a damning picture for Lucas.
Per the federal indictment, Lucas asked a supplier on April 19, 2022, if they were law enforcement, then bought 3-5 pounds of marijuana.
Her daughter, Lisa Lucas-Burke, later wrote a $6,600 business check to a business called “Freedom is Dope.” That’s when the story gets funny.
The check Lucas’s daughter wrote BOUNCED due to “insufficient funds.” Lucas later wrote a signed replacement check on June 8, 2022, from a Backyard Entertainment, LLC account.
Note: “Freedom to Dope” and “Backyard Entertainment” are Lucas’ family’s shell companies.
Dark web drug market operator sentenced to 40 years, forfeits $101 million in bitcoin
A man from Virginia, who facilitated millions of drug transactions worth roughly $430 million, agreed to give up $100 million worth of BTC. His partner forfeited nearly 1,600 BTC.
A co-creator of dark web drug enterprise Empire Market agreed to forfeit 1,230 bitcoin ($101 million), after receiving a 40-year federal prison sentence for his role in operating the site.
His co-conspirator Thomas Pavey forfeited 1,584 bitcoin last year.
Raheim Hamilton, 30, of Suffolk, Virginia, also agreed to forfeit 24.4 ether worth about $60,000 and three properties, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. A federal judge in Chicago sentenced Hamilton on Monday and imposed a $5 million fine.
Hamilton and Pavey operated Empire Market from 2018 to 2020. Their site facilitated more than 4 million drug transactions worth upwards of $430 million, prosecutors said. They also said Hamilton and Pavey sold stolen account credentials, personal data, counterfeit currency and hacking tools.
Pavey, 41, of Ormond Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty last year to a federal drug conspiracy charge and admitted his role in creating and operating Empire Market. He also gave up his rights to two boxes containing 25-ounce gold bars, three automobiles, and two properties in Florida. Pavey is set to be sentenced later this month.
The pair required customers to use cryptocurrency and encouraged them to use mixing services to obscure the movement of funds, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors said drug sales accounted for nearly $375 million of the site’s total activity.
Ruis-Sian Lin, the alleged operator of the dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison in February.
A month earlier, the U.S. government seized $400 million worth of cryptocurrency, real estate and cash linked to the once-popular darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix, which, according to the Department of Justice, was used by drug traffickers and other criminals to launder money at the tune of at least 354,468 bitcoin worth $29 billion today.
Don’t Pretend the ‘War on Drugs’ Has Anything to Do With Fighting Drugs
Addressing the UN General Assembly in September, Donald Trump gloated about his strategy toward “narcoterrorist” cartels, the menace du jour in the United States’ self-declared backyard. Pulling numbers out of his ass per usual, Trump claimed that the manic bombing campaign against alleged seafaring narcoterrorists (read: fishermen) in Central and South America has cut maritime drug trafficking by 97%, and called drug cartels the “ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.”
While it was by no means the president’s intention, he accidentally hit the nail on the head with the ISIS comparison. Both the Islamic State and Latin American drug trafficking outfits are a direct result of US policy—as well as a convenient excuse for the Americans to continue terrorizing people under the pretext of combating the very phenomena they caused in the first place. Just as ISIS owes its origins to the US invasion of Iraq, drug traffickers wouldn’t be in big business if not for—what else?—the US’s so-called “war on drugs” that renders the international movement of illicit substances so lucrative.
This year, the Trump administration has significantly ramped up its drug war beyond just randomly blowing people up in the ocean. In August, the Associated Press (8/17/26) reported on the government’s plans to expand operations to terra firma, quoting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:
It will be “like you saw with the strikes on the drug boats,” Hegseth said during a military drill in the jungle in Panama. “Same effect on land.”
But since there are generally more people on land than in the middle of the sea, there will no doubt be far greater opportunities for extrajudicial execution in this new terrestrial phase of operations.
The escalated campaign takes place against the backdrop of the US-led “Shield of the Americas,” a hemispheric “anti-cartel coalition” inaugurated in March that now boasts the participation of 19 countries. Ecuador has been among the most gung-ho about joining forces with the US to launch “anti-cartel” raids, with such impressive feats to show for it as the joint bombing of a drug trafficking compound that turned out to be a dairy farm.
DISGUSTING! Minnesota Democrat Senate Candidate Peggy Flanagan and Gov. Tim Walz Funneled Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to ‘Booty Bumping’ Kits That Help Junkies Shove Heroin, Meth, and Ketamine Up Their Buttholes
While hardworking Minnesotans struggle with soaring costs, crime, and the aftermath of massive welfare fraud scandals under Democrat rule, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s administration, working hand-in-hand with Gov. Tim Walz, steered millions of your tax dollars to a “harm reduction” nonprofit that hands out free kits complete with lube and step-by-step instructions for drug users to “safely” ingest hard drugs through the rectum.
According to a bombshell report from the Washington Free Beacon, the Walz-Flanagan team highlighted grants to Minneapolis-based Southside Harm Reduction Services as part of a $100 million state program announced for “Minnesotans facing homelessness.”
Flanagan, now the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate against Republican Michele Tafoya, touted the money with the usual progressive platitudes: “These grants will ensure that everyone can access the supports they need to find and secure safe, stable housing.”
What the fine print and the nonprofit’s own materials reveal is far more grotesque. Southside supplies free lube and other items specifically for “booty bumping” (also called “boofing”), allowing users to ingest heroin, methamphetamine, ketamine, and other drugs “through the rectum (anus, butthole).”
The group’s pamphlets instruct users: “Try to poop before. This is so your drugs are absorbed better. Stand, squat, or lay on your side in a comfortable position. It never hurts to have a boofing buddy!”
According to the Washington Free Beacon, state spending records show Minnesota has awarded $7.9 million in grants and contracts to Southside Harm Reduction Services since 2023.
That includes a $432,000 award in 2024 for “low-barrier access” to harm reduction supplies and a $2.5 million contract dated October 1, 2025, for 24/7 outdoor vending machines stocked with Narcan, “safer use” supplies, and hygiene items. The Free Beacon first flagged similar funding during Walz’s failed vice-presidential run.
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