Sentences with phrase «prosecute drug»

We're not making widgets — we write legislation, we prosecute drug deals and terrorists, and protect the environment.»

At a Senate press briefing Tuesday morning, heads of the Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction said that it was time to bolster law enforcement officials» ability to arrest and prosecute drug dealers that put highly addictive heroin and even more dangerous opioids like fentanyl and carfentanyl on the street, after years of legislation aimed at prevention, treatment and insurance coverage.

Federation of Muslim Women of Nigeria, FOMWAN, has called on governments at all levels to arrest and prosecute drug hawkers to curtail drug misuse and abuse...

It is one thing to work on the city council to shut down bars or to prosecute drug addicts or prostitutes; it is another to remove pathological conditions in which mental breakdown occurs.

Kaminsky rep Evan Thies said Kaminsky's having «successfully and fairly prosecuted drug kingpins and dirty politicians» has earned him backing from a number of federal prosecutors.

Ms. Singas, a prosecutor with 24 years of experience in criminal law, has investigated contracting abuses in the county government, and has prosecuted drug dealers and violent criminals.

Under the direction of Matthew Meyerson, Strathdee leads a group responsible for validating and prosecuting drug targets that have emerged from the Broad Institute's comprehensive oncogenomics efforts.

Martin is best known for representing such high - profile clients as Michael Vick, NBA players Allen Iverson and Jayson Williams, former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, Monica Lewinsky, and former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, though his background includes a stint at the U.S. Attorney's office «where he quickly rose up the ranks, prosecuting drug dealers, politicians, white collar criminals, corporations, corrupt cops, and organized crime figures.»

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada usually prosecutes drug charges and these Crown attorneys are sometimes referred to as «federal Crowns.»

Arresting and prosecuting drug crimes eats up valuable time and resources of police, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the court.

We also understand the local courts and the procedures for prosecuting drug crimes in Florida.

Illinois is currently aggressively prosecuting any drug charges, including those for possession.

Not exact matches

To Alan McGonigal, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district's civil division, the rampant abuse of prescription drugs required a more holistic strategy, one that he had often used in prosecuting health care fraud: Find the gatekeepers.

The prosecutor has eight burglaries or drug cases he could bring in the time it takes to prosecute a single white - collar crime.

It is illegal for Americans to purchase foreign drugs online, but the government will not prosecute people buying drugs with a prescription that they would have trouble affording at home.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

The war on drugs is an expensive battle because a great number of resources go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

Hagens Berman prosecuted a lawsuit against TAP Pharmaceuticals Products, Inc. on behalf of a class of consumers and third - party payors who purchased the drug Lupron.

U.S. attorneys in Utah prosecuting a multimillion - dollar opioid drug - ring are moving quickly to sell seized bitcoin that's exploded in value to about $ 8.5 million since the alleged ringleader's arrest a year ago.

TOKYO (AP)-- The American Toyota executive who was arrested in Japan last month on suspicion of drug law violations is expected to be released Wednesday without being prosecuted, according to Japan's Kyodo News service.

Saban also discussed Cam Robinson and Hootie Jones, who were not prosecuted after an arrest in May on drug and gun charges.

A Montana prosecutor has unveiled a program to prosecute pregnant women who either drink or use drugs.

But the anti-narcotic agency, in a statement on Monday by its Head, Public Affairs, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said any individual, found culpable of drug trafficking and other related offences, would be duly prosecuted by the agency irrespective of his or her status.

These small but significant reforms will give law enforcement and prosecutors the ability to utilize eavesdropping warrants to further fully investigate crimes involving the distribution of controlled substances, as well as empower law enforcement to further prosecute organized activity related to prescription drug trafficking in New York State.

John spent sixteen years traveling across Upstate New York in his role as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting corrupt politicians, business frauds, drug traffickers, and gang members and making our community safer for every Central New York family regardless of race, creed, culture, or address.

At 1:30 p.m., Rep. John Katko will be joined by Onondaga County DA Bill Fitzpatrick, local law enforcement, healthcare and treatment service providers, and advocates in announcing bipartisan legislation that he has introduced in the House that would make it easier to prosecute the sale and distribution of synthetic drugs, Onondaga County DA's Office, 505 South State St., 4th Floor, Syracuse.

«Secondly, we will re-focus resources away from prosecuting people whose only crime is that they have used drugs, or are addicted to drugs.

In 2000, he got enhanced sentences for three drug dealers on the grounds that evidence showed they were involved in a double murder in Rome for which they were never prosecuted.

Possibly because you have never prosecuted a case, you have taken a different approach, starting with fighting for laws to reduce oversight of sex offenders, letting drug dealers out of jail, and advocating for the rights of criminals ahead of the needs of law enforcement.»

The measure would also give the AG's office explicit authority in prosecuting price gougers of prescription drugs.

Another requirement is that victims or bystanders who report alleged incidents of sexual assault not be prosecuted for college violations they reveal, such as alcohol or drug use that was connected to the incidents.

Following a Newsday story last week that detailed how the district attorney's office failed to prosecute apparent public corruption, drug activity and an armed robbery during an extensive wiretap investigation into Macedonio, County Executive Steve Bellone in a news conference accused Spota of leading a «criminal enterprise» and demanded that he step down or be removed from office.

Ramon Jimenez, the Green Party candidate for NY Attorney General, discusses the fight to keep Hostos Community College open, clemency for non-violent drug offenders, criminal justice reform, and the failure of the present Attorney General to criminally prosecute those who stole $ 1 million from Puerto Rican Day parade.

«My office is determined and committed to hunting down drug dealers, aggressively prosecuting them and sending them to prison.»

Along the way they'll also budget tens of billions of dollars of state spending on education, health care and roads and bridges, and decide the fate of hundreds of other bills, including proposals to ban the declawing of cats, end the practice of prosecuting and imprisoning 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders as adults and authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life - ending drugs from a physician.

The US, in its request, asked the Nigerian government to surrender Kashamu to be prosecuted on one count charge of a drug - related offence pending against him before the United States District Court for the Northern Illinois, Eastern Division.

While synthetic drugs are still showing up legally on retail store shelves, Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) introduced legislation this week that would make it easier to prosecute the distributors.

There, he spent 4 1⁄2 years prosecuting gang - related killings and what he said was the first federal prosecution of people selling bath salts, a designer drug.

Katko's other awards earned throughout his career include the Distinguished Service Award in 1997 for his work in a international drug trafficking investigation and the Director's Commendation from FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2002 for prosecuting Schenectady police officers in a police corruption case.

A lifelong prosecutor with more than two decades of experience in the courtroom, Madeline has successfully prosecuted violent criminals, drug dealers, corrupt law enforcement officers and sex offenders, and started and led Nassau County's first - ever Special Victims Bureau.

She told Blank Slate Media in February she would be tough on drug - related crimes and prioritize prosecuting offenses against women and children.

Some vendors hope this distinction will allow them to evade a 1970 law that allows authorities to prosecute for drugs that are «substantially similar» to banned substances if they are intended for human consumption.

In 1997, for instance, South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled that women who use drugs during pregnancy can be prosecuted for child abuse.

The ability to unequivocally track and identify drugs would be useful for pharmaceutical firms, which spend millions of dollars per year for aggressive legal teams to find and prosecute counterfeiters.

In fact, Miller v. Skumanick (eventually Miller v. Mitchell in the appeals court) got even more interesting because the prosecutor told the dozen students caught up in the affair, that he would not prosecute them if they accepted school suspension, submitted to drug tests, wrote an essay about their infractions, and attended a five - week re-education program in which they would admit that what they did was wrong and — for the girls — had learned what it meant to be a girl in today's society.

The story centers around Belfa Elkins, a prosecuting attorney, who is strong, independent and doggedly determined to rid her community of the drug dealers who are dragging it's people further into the depths of despair and poverty.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations teamed up with Homeland Security Investigations, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to investigate and prosecute the case.

If a person doesn't have any drugs on them, there shouldn't be enough evidence to prosecute.

Meanwhile, in the UK vast sums are spent on prosecuting individuals and trying vainly to interrupt the flow of drugs into cities, carried along «county lines» by vulnerable children.