Legal Amphetamine Sneaking Into North Texas Under Guise Of Bath Salts
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – North Texas health officials are concerned about a currently legal chemical that has begun surfacing in stores and online in the form of bath salts. Some users have ended up in...
View ArticleMexican Cartels Taking Over Some North Texas Homes
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Picture the perfect North Texas neighborhood. They are children running along the streets. The houses have beautiful lawns with manicured shrubbery. Big trees line the sidewalks....
View ArticleEvent Lets You Dispose Of Old Pills & Medications
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants you to get rid of any old prescription drugs this weekend. Saturday, October 29, is “Prescription Drug Take Back Day” and...
View Article‘Doctor Shopping’ Database Concerns Privacy Advocates
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The abuse of prescription drugs has skyrocketed across the nation, and especially in Texas where, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, accidental overdoses from 1999 to 2007...
View ArticleFBI: Strip Club Owner Wanted To Pay To Kill Arlington Officials
Strip club owner Ryan Walker Grant was arrested on April 9 for attempting to put a hit on two Arlington city officials. (Credit: City of Arlington) ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – An Arlington strip club...
View ArticleArlington Mayor Speaks On Murder-For-Hire Plot
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Mayor Robert Cluck spoke publicly Wednesday for the first time about an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting him and a lawyer doing contract work for the city. The owner of...
View ArticleTarrant Co. Prepares For Drug “Take-Back” Event
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A drug “take-back” program in Tarrant County has netted a huge stash of old medications. Organizations across Tarrant County have had three take-back events since 2010 and...
View ArticleWoman Jailed For Trying To Fill A Prescription
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Anne Lenhart never thought filling a prescription at CVS Pharmacy in Dallas could land her in jail. The avid yoga practicer raised more $20,000 for Off the Mat, Into the World...
View ArticleMan Linked To Federal Agent’s Murder Gets 7 Years On Weapons Charges
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A man who pled guilty last year to his role in a gun trafficking operation that was linked to the killing of a federal agent in Mexico was sentenced Monday to seven years in...
View ArticleDFW Airport Worker Among Dozens Busted In DEA Raid
DFW AIRPORT (CBSDFW.COM) – A large drug bust at San Juan Puerto Rico’s international Airport has a North Texas connection. At least 33 people, suspected of smuggling millions of dollars worth of drugs...
View Article500 Pounds Of Marijuana Found On Texas School Bus
MARFA (AP) – Investigators are trying to determine who smuggled nearly 500 pounds of marijuana on board a West Texas school bus hauling student athletes. Border Patrol officials say the duffel bags of...
View ArticleDEA Probe Leads Investigators To House In Murphy
MURPHY (CBSDFW.COM) – Scores of law enforcement officers took over late-model home this morning in Murphy in a raid that appears to be drug-related. It happened in the 300 block of Oakhurst Drive....
View ArticleCourt Rejects Bid To Have Marijuana Reclassified
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court has rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use. The appeals court panel Tuesday...
View Article550-Pound Xanax Bust Highlights Rise In Prescription Drug Abuse
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Federal agents arrested two Dallas men Sunday after they watched them accept a shipment of 550 pounds of the drug Xanax, according to federal documents. Brandon Lynell Gardner...
View ArticleNorth Texan Challenging Right To Film Federal Buildings
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Frisco man claims the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) harassed him for simply walking on public property. The confrontation was caught on camera while the man was...
View ArticleMexican Man Sentenced For Role In Texas Drug Ring
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Mexican citizen has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison for helping lead a South Texas drug ring. Francisco Gonzalez-Contreras was sentenced Monday during a federal...
View ArticleFrisco Father Fought For New Laws Against Synthetic Drugs After Son’s Death
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FRISCO (CBS11) – Eric Brown’s life changed forever in December 2013, when his 15-year-old son died after experimenting with N-Bomb, a synthetic drug similar to...
View ArticleGovernment Won’t Reclassify Marijuana, Allows More Research
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration isn’t going to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the list of the most dangerous drugs. The Drug Enforcement...
View ArticleTHC-Laced Candies A Growing Concern In North Texas
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Dallas have confirmed to CBS11 they’ve seen an increase of Cannabis or THC-laced...
View ArticleEx-Central Texas Officer Convicted Of Lying About Text Tip
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter AUSTIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a fired Central Texas police officer faces up to five years in prison for lying about texting to tip off someone in a criminal...
View ArticleScientists Call On U.S. To Allow Research On Pot Meds For Pets
BEND, Ore. (AP) — Dr. Byron Maas surveys a supply of marijuana products for dogs that lines a shelf in his veterinary clinic. They’re selling well. “The ‘Up and Moving’ is for joints and for pain,” he...
View ArticleLaredo Border Patrol Agents Seize More Than 1 Ton Of Marijuana
LAREDO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents intercepted three narcotic smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana in and around Laredo,...
View ArticleRecords Show Drugmakers Increased Opioid Shipments As Crisis Grew
CLEVELAND (AP) — Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to...
View ArticleDEA To Accept Vaping Devices, Cartridges During 18th National Drug Take Back
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — For the first time, the Drug Enforcement Administration will now accept vaping devices and cartridges at any drop off locations during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On...
View ArticlePark Cities Mother Of 10, Gina Bishop-Corwin, Arrested For Drug Trafficking
Plano Police Detective Frank Dockery Resigns after Being Arrested In Drug Trafficking Investigation PARK CITIES, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Park Cities mother of ten is among a group of people caught up in...
View ArticlePlano Police Detective Frank Dockery Resigns After Being Arrested In Drug...
North Texas Drug Trafficking Suspects Including Former Plano Detective, Mother Of 10 Appear At Federal Detention Hearing PLANO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Plano Police Detective Frank Eric Dockery, 45,...
View Article2nd Deadly Drug Overdose Likely Connected To North Texas Drug Trafficking Ring
SHERMAN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A second fatal fentanyl overdose will likely be connected to a drug trafficking ring that investigators say included a Plano Police detective and a Park Cities mother of...
View ArticleDEA Launching Effort To Crack Down On Major Meth ‘Transportation Hubs’ Such...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Drug Enforcement Administration has announced a new effort to crack down on major methamphetamine “transportation hubs” around the U.S., including the Dallas area. Officials...
View ArticleMesquite Narcotics Officers, Dallas DEA Dismantle Major Drug Trafficking...
MESQUITE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A months-long investigation by the Mesquite Police Narcotics Unit led to the dismantling of a major illicit organization responsible for trafficking narcotics across the...
View Article10 Suspected Cocaine Dealers Charged In Texas Following ‘Large-Scale Federal...
LUBBOCK, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Ten people in Lubbock have been charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other related drug crimes following “a large-scale federal operation.” Nine members of a...
View ArticleNearly $500K In Methamphetamine Seized From Kaufman County Home
KEMP, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force members along with the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office investigators seized nearly half-a-million dollars worth of methamphetamine...
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