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  Florida Cops Stole Drugs and Cash From Evidence Room, Replaced Them With Fakes and Sold Real Drugs in Massive $420,000 Scheme

  Court records say Hickox and Earrey stole money and illegal drugs, including fentanyl and cocaine, from evidence collected during investigations

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  Inside the High-Stakes Negotiations Between El Chapo's Sons And U.S. Authorities Over Plea Deals

  Ovidio and Joaquín Guzmán are in talks with prosecutors as they hope to avoid trial

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  Drug Enforcement Agent Used Position to Protect Childhood Friends Who Became Drug Dealers

  A double-dealing former federal agent in Buffalo, New York, was found guilty of seven charges on Thursday, including protecting his childhood friends and the Buffalo mafia while they trafficked drugs.

• U.S. to charge Venezuela's National Guard chief with drug trafficking

  U.S. prosecutors are preparing to unveil drug trafficking charges against the head of Venezuela's National Guard, according to people familiar with the case, as the United States investigates the suspected involvement of senior Venezuelan officials in the cocaine trade.

• Even as laws change, the 'M' word is banned in head shops

  You still can't say "marijuana" in the head shop. For years, the stores that sell marijuana pipes and bongs have insisted that the products they sell are for tobacco use, choosing their words carefully to avoid being ensnared in laws against marijuana paraphernalia.

• Fugitive drug lord 'Chapo' Guzman likely still in Mexico: DEA chief

  The U.S. government believes fugitive Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is still in Mexico, and federal agents are working with Mexican authorities on his recapture, the acting head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said on Wednesday.

• CVS pays $22 million to resolve Florida painkiller probe

  CVS Health Corp, the second-largest U.S. drugstore operator, will pay $22 million to resolve a federal probe into whether two of its pharmacies in central Florida sold powerful, potentially addictive painkillers that were not prescribed for legitimate medical purposes.

• DEA chief to step down, Congress probes sex party leaks

  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's chief will step down within weeks, the Obama administration said on Tuesday, as a congressional panel planned to examine whether DEA agents divulged secrets at sex parties that Colombian drug lords may have staged.

• U.S. authorities seize $180 million Colombian cocaine shipment

  U.S. authorities confiscated a $180 million shipment of cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers aboard a boat on the Pacific Ocean bound for the United States, the Colombian attorney general's office said on Saturday.

• U.S. indictment unsealed in San Diego against Sinaloa cartel members

  Federal prosecutors in San Diego unsealed 14 grand jury indictments on Friday against 60 members of Mexico's most powerful drug enterprise, the Sinaloa cartel, including many listed as among the group's leaders and top enforcers.

• Four arrested in Kenya over drug syndicate linked to U.S.

  Four people were arrested in Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa on suspicion of trafficking huge quantities of heroin to the United States, police said on Monday without giving the precise value or quantity of the drugs.

• Germany gives nod to RWE unit sale to Russian investor: sources

  Germany's economy ministry will approve the sale of utility RWE's (RWEG.DE) oil and gas unit DEA to a Russian investor despite tensions between Russia and the West over theUkraine crisis, two people familiar with the matter said.