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The DEA Special Operations Division (SOD) is a secretive division within the DEA, which forwards information from wiretaps, intercepts and databases from various sources to federal agents and local law enforcement officials. The SOD came under scrutiny following the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures.

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La Roux is a former computer programmer and a former criminal cartel boss and informant to the DEA. ... It is also a chronicle of the manhunt for Le Roux across six continents by an elite team of investigators from the 960 Group, a secretive element within the agency's Special Operations Division. He was ...
Each group will be organized based on joint task forces of Special Ops, Army, Air Force and Navy. Selected units and personnel will ... National Guard, Border Patrol, DEA, and local sheriffs' units would conduct border security operations on the United States side of the border. This initiative does not violate ...

Nineteen individuals were arrested by joint forces of the Southern Police District (SPD) District Drug Enforcement Unit, District Special Operations Unit ... SAN CARLOS CITY,PANGASINAN — Operatives of San Carlos City Police in coordination with Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 ...
Raymond Donovan, special agent in charge for the DEA's Special Operations Division: Donovan said 97% of the heroin seized by DEA in 2017 originated in Mexico, up from 82% a year prior. (These figures, however, were disputed by Ibarra, who cited information gaps on drug trafficking that the U.S. and ...
... Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives in Negros Oriental arrested six persons in an anti-illegal drugs operation Wednesday in this city. An initial police report said that a joint team of elements from the PNP Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, the Provincial Intelligence Bureau-Special Operations ...
He also served with the Community Relations Department (PAL) for 2 1/2 years, Street Crimes Unit (Patrol) for 5 years, Narcotics Unit (DEA Task Force) for 2 1/2 years and is currently a member of S.W.A.T., ... He has served in patrol, K-9, Special Operations, SWAT, and the Professional Standards Unit.

Reuters first published details about the practice in a 2013 investigation that revealed that the DEA's Special Operations Division—whose activities earned it the nickname "the dark side"—was regularly funneling tips obtained from wiretaps, surveillance, and a massive telephone database to field agents ...
I extend the highest praise to my Special Operations Group, as well as every member of the operation. The courage and ... The DEA Monmouth/Ocean HIDTA Task Force was formed for this exact reason, to bring additional resources to aid in the fight against drug trafficking in Ocean County. Our goal is to ...
A total of 28 arrests, three fugitive warrants and nine controlled dangerous substance manufacturing facilities were dismantled thanks to Ocean County's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area partnership's first investigation, according to an announcement on Friday from Prosecutor Joseph Coronato.
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato said it was the biggest drug operation at least since the Ocean County Strike Team – now known as the Special Operations Group – was formed in 1988. Coronato credited the operation with the county's recent federal designation as a High Intensity Drug ...

He was also joined by New Jersey DEA special agent Valerie A. Nickerson and First Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Davenport. ... The prosecutor's special operations group, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Ocean/Monmouth High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and 30 state, county, ...
TOMS RIVER — A total of 28 arrests, three fugitive warrants and nine controlled dangerous substance production facilities were dismantled during Operation Heading Back, a multi-agency effort with Ocean County's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force, Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato announced ...
15, when the Abilene Special Operations Division and a K9 Unit, were sent to a business on the city's south side after a report came in about a suspicious ... that certain businesses in Abilene are still selling products that contain CBD, which are now illegal to sell or possess after the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ...
As a result of his work ethic and performance on the job, he was elevated to the Special Operations Section (SOS) Division, according to former members of the DEA Detroit Group One Task Force. While in the SOS Division, he worked vice, the Larceny Unit, and was eventually assigned to a plainclothes ...
“These law enforcement actions should serve notice that no drug criminal is safe or anonymous on the dark web,” said DEA European Regional Director Kevin ... DEA's Special Operations Division coordinated the US portion of the international action while FBI, HSI, CBP, IRS, and USPIS also assisted.
He said it means special operations teams working with security forces on land and the presence of Coast Guard Medium Endurance Cutters on the seas. ... rather than cocaine coming largely from Colombia, the Drug Enforcement Agency lists China as a manufacturer of finished and precursors for fentanyl ...
Federal agents at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration speak in veiled terms about the secret DEA unit that shares intelligence from the National Security Agency and other organizations with law enforcement for use in criminal investigations. They call it the “Dark Side.” The Special Operations ...
For years, the DEA led the battle against Hezbollah's drug trafficking through Project Cassandra, a decade-long operation run by the DEA through the Special Operations Division, a multi-agency coordination center that enables stakeholders from the law enforcement and intelligence communities to share ...
EXCLUSIVE: In a deal firmed as an electrifying criminal murder trial unfolds, HarperCollins – under the publishing imprint established by filmmaker Michael Mann — has preemptively acquired publishing rights to a book Elaine Shannon has written about the transnational organized crime figure Paul Le ...
A joint operation conducted by the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Barangay Pasong Tamo resulted in the ... Another operation conducted by members of the QCPD Special Operations Unit, along with the District Drug Enforcement Unit, led to the arrest of two ...


 

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