by John Floyd | Nov 25, 2020 | Drug Crime, Drug Smuggling, Drug Trafficking
Law enforcement officers have broad discretion and legal responsibility to uphold the law. That doesn’t make them above the law, however. Unfortunately, investigations like Operation Blue Shame reveal that some officers abuse their law enforcement discretion to a...
by John Floyd | Sep 21, 2018 | Drug Crime, Drug Smuggling, Drug Trafficking
San Antonio is one of several large cities near the Mexico border experiencing drug trafficking problems due to the prevalence of “drug cartels.” The DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies have increased their presence in these cities in a combined...
by John Floyd | Jul 11, 2017 | Drug Smuggling, Drug Trafficking
The Government can proceed against an individual in two ways: either against the individual “personally” known as “in personam” or against their property known as “in rem.” The latter is known as civil forfeiture. During the first two hundred years of this nation’s...
by John Floyd | Apr 17, 2017 | Drug Crime, Drug Smuggling
Drug smuggling is difficult and quite frequently hazardous, especially when illegal drugs are being moved across the border. Drug smugglers are regularly challenged to find new ways of moving their smuggled cargo past security checkpoints or drug dogs. Sometimes these...
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