Drug-Enforcement Team Relaunches With New Focus

Published March 8, 2013

Drug-enforcement team relaunches with new focus

Filed under: Illinois Drug Use

That's a different approach than nine years ago, when the DIRT team first formed to target methamphetamine use and production, which had boomed in Illinois. The deputy said people would drive from St. Louis and stop at different stores along the way to …
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Maine prosecutor: Agent managed Zumba prostitution

Filed under: Illinois Drug Use

ALFRED, Maine (AP) – An insurance agent charged with promoting prostitution signed a lease, reviewed ledgers, confirmed the identities of johns and used Skype to monitor a Zumba instructor's paid sex acts, making him not just a voyeur but her full …
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Outside Box, Federal Judges Offer Addicts a Free Path

Filed under: Illinois Drug Use

So far, federal judges have instituted programs in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington. About 400 defendants have been involved … The Justice Department has supported additional changes …
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Iowa medical pot bill likely dead

Filed under: Illinois Drug Use

Chaney Yeast, manager of the Regional Child Protection Center at Blank Children's Hospital, said the center, which works to prevent child abuse, opposed the bill because it feared it would send a confusing message to young people that the drug is safe …
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