Subject: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

• Deep Shallow

  Undercover cop film is underdeveloped, too

  August 26, 1999

• Curiouser and Curiouser

  Ex-congressman Stockman is labeled a co-conspirator in prescription fraud

  June 7, 2001

• A Night in the Tub

  An angel named Grace, a doctor who's a real Trip and fresh gore flooding the ER -- the new Ben Taub gets old quick

  September 6, 2001

• The Cannabis Caper

  How a citizen's donation to NORML got routed to the DEA

  March 28, 2002

• Now We Know Why Wal-Mart Has That Smiley Face

  The U.S. Attorney's office has just announced the break-up of a major drug operation. It was run by Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, so you know it was convenient and cheap.Wal-Mart Stores paid the Southern District of Texas a $637,000 fine in order to close cases involving Wal-Mart Pharmacy and Sam's Club employees who didn't quite keep the most accurate records on controlled substances in their posession.Says the U.S. Attorney's office: The accountability audits did not match the drugs on hand reveal

  January 7, 2009

• Hollow Points

  November 24, 1994

• The Tango Blast Houstone Gang Takes A Hit

  Local and federal agents in an anti-gang task force charged with waging the much-debated "War on Drugs" have nabbed another round of bad guys, this time more than a dozen members of Texas' largest prison gang, Tango Blast Houstone. Acting Houston U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson announced today that 14 members of the highly-decentralized yet populous Houstone gang have been indicted on five counts related to the possession and distribution of marijuana and cocaine. The indictments are the result of the

  January 21, 2009

• Ritalin on Trial

  January 4, 1996

• Cajun 12-Step

  May 16, 1996

• BARC's Firing Of Vet Doesn't Add Up

  On Tuesday, Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care veterinarian Gil Costas was fired for what Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Kathy Barton said was not having proper state certification.Barton said Costas did not have "site-specific" Texas Department of Public Safety controlled-substances registration. But Jane Ray, of DPS's controlled-substances division, told Hair Balls this morning that the "site-specific" factor only applies to where vets store narcotics -- not to where th

  February 4, 2009

• Air Disaster

  June 5, 1997

• Snitch Vs. Snitch

  August 28, 1997

• (Not) of Counsel

  December 11, 1997

• Take the Cash and Talk That Trash

  March 19, 1998

• The Hotel Six Joker Turns Wild

  April 9, 1998

• Summer Reruns at Hotel Six

  May 28, 1998

• The Wrong Enemies

  October 15, 1998

• News of the Weird

  August 5, 1999

• The Rise and Fall of the Stanford Financial Group

  Castles and corruption lead to criminal charges.

  April 9, 2009

• Hawk

  Saturday, December 7

  December 5, 2002

• Files Not Found

  Thousands of missing FBI documents in the Timothy McVeigh case? It comes as no surprise to the survivors of Operation Lightning Strike.

  July 19, 2001

• Gangsters in Bacliff

  September 11, 2008

• In Their Own Words

  Judging by the idle chatter of Hotel Six politicos, the moral barometer at City Hall is in free fall

  April 2, 1998

• Mescaline on the Mexican Border

  February 14, 2008

• The Cheap Secrets of Harwin

  Beyond the Galleria, beyond Target - and sometimes beyond the law - lies Houston's last untamed wilderness of shopping

  March 21, 1996

• Press Picks

  February 15, 1996

• U.S. informants take part in murder and drug running in Mexico

  March 8, 2007

• Rants About Stuff

  A Bevy of Bad News

  October 5, 2006

• Undercover of the Night

  Violent shootouts and dangerous love collide in Mann's visceral Vice

  July 27, 2006

• RIP, Syd. And RIP, 'Cid.

  A psychedelic pioneer and the drug that helped do him in are both sorely missed

  July 20, 2006

• Feel My Pain

  A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted

  June 15, 2006

• Feel My Pain

  A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted

  June 8, 2006

• Fool's Gold

  August 25, 2005

• The Last Ride

  December 9, 2004

• Reefer Madness

  The government says Clayton Jones shouldn't smoke marijuana. He says it's the only thing that keeps him from blowing his brains out.

  September 30, 2004

• Letters

  November 20, 2003

• Stoner Science

  Our staff risks all to determine if a plant will get them high or if it's just another Internet lie

  October 30, 2003

• High Scores

  Students are using drugs illegally not to party down, but to get better marks on exams

  April 17, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  April 10, 2003

• Pap Fiction

  Travolta unloads another awful bomb in Basic

  March 27, 2003

• Dead Man Talking

  Ben Guillory helped the DEA bust some east Houston dope dealers. But he says the agency's cavalier approach has left him a marked man in his old neighborhood.

  May 31, 2001

• Lean & Mean

  Those who drink codeine syrup call it lean because of its most obvious effect: a loss of coordination. Those who study the drug call it liquid crack. Those who abuse it can wind up dead.

  April 26, 2001

• War Games

  With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes an unblinking look at America's drug policies

  January 4, 2001

• Fun with Mick and Mary Jane

  Speaking off the toque: Mickey Kapoor

  September 21, 2000

• In Arms' Way

  Phil Arms once saved Ron Garner from a life of sin. Garner tried to return the favor when confronted with evidence of the preacher's drug use. But Arms viewed it as just a Judas kiss.

  June 15, 2000

• Here's Johnny

  May 25, 2000

• Methadone Meltdown

  Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?

  April 27, 2000

• Bacliff's 4th Street Players Gang Gets Hit With Federal Prison

  As Hurricane Ike threatened the Upper Texas Coast, we went to press with the story of the 4th Street Players, a predominantly white Anglo street gang in the Galveston Bay town of Bacliff. Nine members of the gang, who wore red colors in emulation of LA's Blood gangs, had been arrested in May of last year after a two-year investigation by the FBI, DEA, ATF and several local law enforcement agencies and charged with numerous crimes related to the sale of cocaine, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine

  May 5, 2009

• More BARC News: The Hammer Comes Down On Two Vets

  Photo by maarjaara The Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners has fined BARC Chief Veterinarian Eunice Ohashiegbula and former BARC vet David Rundell for violating U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Texas Veterinary Licensing Act requirements. In Texas, veterinarians who dispense controlled substances must be registered with the Texas Department of Public Safety. The Board found that Ohashiegbula allowed Rundell to dispense controlled substances without DPS registration, ther

  June 22, 2009

• A Shake-Up At BARC, For Better Or Worse

  ​BARC went through some housecleaning yesterday -- in a big way.In addition to the firing of veterinarian Eunice Ohashiegbula-Iwunze, other BARC personnel issues Wednesday included the resignation of Administrative Supervisor Dorian Strickland and a "disciplinary procedure in process" for vet tech Abiga Arredondo. Ohashiegbula-Iwunze had recently been demoted from the chief veterinarian position. She was fined $500 by the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners in June for violating U

  August 6, 2009