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OKLAHOMA CITY -- A former Oklahoma state drug agent is at the center of a federal investigation. Fernando "Frank" Reyes is accused of hiring people to buy guns -- including AK-47s -- and then selling them to people who would take them to Texas and then to Mexico. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began investigating Reyes in May. "We find this very surprising and very disturbing, if true, because we put a lot of trust in our agents, and we have some of the best of the best working here," said Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark...

By Sue Pleming ( <---- LIBERAL ALERT!) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush indicated in interviews secretly taped by a friend before he became president that he had used marijuana but would not admit it for fear of setting a bad example for children. Portions of the tapes, recorded from 1998 to 2000 by author Doug Wead without Bush's knowledge, were aired on ABC News on Sunday and published by The New York Times. Their authenticity was verified by the media outlets but has not been independently checked by Reuters. "I wouldn't answer the marijuana question. You know why? Because I...

PAMPA, Tex., Feb. 9 - No one prosecuted the war on drugs in the Texas Panhandle more zealously than Richard James Roach. As the blustery and hot-tempered Republican district attorney for five counties overrun with methamphetamines, he had eked out an election victory in 2000 vowing a crackdown and was soon gleefully reeling off the harsh sentences he had wrung from juries: 36 years, 38 years, 40 years, 60 years, 75 years - even 99 years. "I think it's quite clear that the good citizens of this district are fed up with drugs," he said. He had barely missed...

Excellent speech by Ex-Drug Warrior Sheriff Bill Masters. Sheriff Bill Masters is a veteran of the "Drug War." He was so good at it that he won an award from the Drug Enforcement Agency. As the years passed, however, Masters began to harbor misgivings about the drug war. A few years ago, Masters came to the conclusion that the drug war is itself an addiction —and that drug prohibition is more damaging to the fabric of American society than drugs could ever be. Masters has served as sheriff of San Miguel County, Colorado, since 1979 and has become America's first...

<p>A Henrico County narcotics officer fired a single shot into an occupied car in the parking lot of a West Broad Street restaurant today during a drug operation that apparently went awry.</p> <p>No one was struck by the gunfire, which penetrated the lower right windshield of a vehicle occupied by two men arrested by police. The bullet lodged in the car's dashboard.</p>

<p>ROANOKE - An off-duty Drug Enforcement Administration agent who gunned down a Roanoke man during a parking-lot scuffle in February was impelled by too much booze and machismo, a prosecutor asserted yesterday.</p> <p>"What happened is, you had two men fueled by alcohol and testosterone, and they came together," prosecutor Wanda DeWease told jurors in the opening day of agent Timothy G. Workman's murder trial.</p>