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Read More »View from around the state: Step up efforts to block synthetic opioid sales
18 indicted in alleged heroin ring in southeast Wisconsin
Authorities say they have busted a heroin ring in southeastern Wisconsin.
Tagged with: DEA Gregory Haanstad heroin
Read More »Judge rejects Menominee’s hemp arguments (UPDATE)
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin over a federal raid of its industrial hemp crop grown on tribal land.
Tagged with: DEA marijuana William Griesbach
Read More »Menominee tribe awaits judge’s ruling in hemp lawsuit
The leader of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin says it won't plant a new crop of industrial hemp until a federal judge resolves the tribe's lawsuit against the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
Tagged with: DEA Kathryn Wyer Menominee tribe Tim Purdon William Griesbach
Read More »Federal grand juries indict Wis. man, 2 others on drug charges
Two federal juries for the Western District of Wisconsin have indicted an Oregon, Wis., man and two Mexicans on drug charges.
Tagged with: Arwin Lacey DEA drugs
Read More »Menominee Tribe sues federal authorities over hemp raid (UPDATE)
The Menominee Nation filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to clarify that the tribe has a right to grow industrial hemp — a crop related to marijuana — on its Wisconsin reservation.
Tagged with: DEA DOJ marijuana
Read More »41 people indicted in alleged heroin ring on reservations
Federal and tribal law enforcement authorities said Thursday they've taken down an interstate drug trafficking ring that was the largest source of heroin on two Minnesota American Indian reservations.
Read More »Synthetic drug seller gets 17-½ years in prison
The owner of a now-closed Minnesota head shop was sentenced to 17-½ years in prison Thursday for selling synthetic drugs in a case that prosecutors said should remove any doubts that substances sold under such names as "incense," ''spice" and "bath salts" are illegal.
Tagged with: DEA James Carlson synthetic drugs
Read More »Appeals court denies head shop owner’s request
A Wisconsin appeals court on Monday shot down a Delavan head shop’s continued attempt to recover $110,000 worth of seized incense products that contained synthetic marijuana.
Tagged with: DEA Eric Holder Joel Flaum Rudolph Randa
Read More »US high court questions limits of personal jurisdiction
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court verbally jousted with attorneys Monday in an effort to nail down just how much contact a defendant must have with a particular jurisdiction before he can be hauled into court there.
Tagged with: Anthony Kennedy DEA Personal jurisdiction U.S. Supreme Court
Read More »ON THE DEFENSIVE: The perils of parallel construction
In criminal prosecutions, defendants often feel as if they are fighting an impossible battle.
Tagged with: Anthony Cotton DEA Kuchler & Cotton National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers On the Defensive U.S. Supreme Court Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Read More »Judge declines to sanction prosecutors in GPS case
A federal judge is declining to sanction prosecutors for failing to disclose the use of GPS devices to track an Iowa drug suspect.
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