Keegan Hamilton

News

The DEA Looks Like a Total Mess Right Now

Senior agency officials, including top boss Anne Milgram, face questions about lucrative contracts as Congress scrutinizes operations abroad.
Keegan Hamilton
4.19.23
los chapitos

US Claims El Chapo’s Sons Fed People to Tigers

Prosecutors claim that Los Chapitos also tested illicit fentanyl produced by the Sinaloa Cartel on humans in a slew of new charges.
Keegan Hamilton
Nathaniel Janowitz
4.14.23
News

El Mencho's Son Reconsiders Plea Deal After Family Lawyer Shows Up at Last Minute

El Menchito, the son and top deputy of the CJNG cartel's infamous leader, was due to plead guilty in a U.S. court. Then a new lawyer showed up.
Keegan Hamilton
Nathaniel Janowitz
4.13.23
News

Chuck Grassley and Mexico's Corrupt Top Cop Both Want Dirt on the DEA

The Republican senator is investigating the DEA and FBI—and he's asking for help from lawyers for convicted Mexican official Genaro García Luna.
Keegan Hamilton
4.12.23
News

Michael K. Williams’ Drug Dealer Admits Selling Him Deadly Dose of Fentanyl

Irvin Cartagena faced a potential life sentence for supplying drugs that caused “The Wire” actor’s overdose, but a guilty plea allows for less prison time.
Keegan Hamilton
4.6.23
police unions

A Police Union Leader Was Busted for International Fentanyl Smuggling

Joanne Segovia, 64, known as the “grandma” of San Jose's powerful cop union, tried to blame it on the housekeeper.
Keegan Hamilton
3.31.23
News

The Nashville Shooter’s Arsenal Makes a Mockery of US Gun Laws

The school shooting in Nashville, like most mass killings in the U.S., was carried out by a perpetrator using legally purchased weapons.
Keegan Hamilton
3.29.23
News

DEA Report Finds DEA Foreign Operations Are Going Great

Sen. Chuck Grassley and other critics slammed a new report commissioned by the DEA to examine its troubled foreign operations.
Keegan Hamilton
3.28.23
News

Amazon Sellers Disguised Banned Gun Parts as Bike Handlebars

Retailers used Amazon's platform to sell "stabilizing braces" for pistols banned by the company and targeted by the Biden administration.
Keegan Hamilton
3.24.23
News

People Are 3D Printing Anti-Tank Rocket Launchers Now

Civilians are using 3D-printing technology to make rockets and grenade launchers, which could have major implications for the modern battlefield.
Keegan Hamilton
3.15.23
News

Biden’s Ghost Gun Crackdown Is Starting to Fall Apart

Gun control groups are bracing for a "worst case scenario" after a court partially lifted some federal restrictions on untraceable firearms.
Keegan Hamilton
3.8.23
News

Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo

The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
Keegan Hamilton
3.2.23
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