the drug enforcement agency says agents were at his house the morning of january 11th assisting sfpd. the department tells us it was investigating a marijuana-growing operation. officers searched several warrants that morning including one for freshman's address on diamond. but freshman says the warrant covered a single unit in a building with more than one. he says officers made serious mistakes. >> one search without a valid warrant. two, not respecting my right to remain silent. three, not respecting my right to counsel. and four, excessive force handcuffing me when they had five armed people there, and i was in a bathrobe and boxer shorts. >> reporter: freshman says the officers also referred to show him picture i.d. at one point he wondered if it was a home invasion. an expert in lying, freshman worried about his nervous response when an officer asked him if there were guns in the house. >> i delayed and my voice cracked. when i train people in lie detection, that's a line of ooh, could be a deception. i was afraid they would get violent. >> reporter: pd says freshman got caught

a rubber duck this is the drug enforcement agency which is of course a crucial part of empire is this war on drugs is just like the war on terror it's a way to defraud the american population but they're selling this bizarre rubber duck with big fat red lips to finance i don't know some contract is probably down in virginia somewhere but i think the people who are on the v.a. are a last thing after the village people if you remember that. but disco group from a while ago the things like they have a a leather pettish at the da. looked like. and also you know part of this whole. sort of collapsing state cash strapped berg in new jersey to fight you know with pickle juice yes apparently bergen new jersey cannot afford salt to salt their roads so they're turning to pickle juice the brine costs just seven cents a gallon compared to sixty three dollars a tonne for salt so bergen county has already used up three million of its four million dollars new project well things you never let me warn you never eat green snow. ok and that's going to do it for this action portion edition i have first

agency relies on today these things. food drug and cosmetic act, still basically the main enforcement tool of the agency supplemented forrds access for the diseases and of course, the code of federal regulations, and then finally this, the last slide, this is the new food safety regulation that has been talked about a little bit. as has been correctly pointed out, there was no mandatory recall authority. i can tell you from personal experience there are companies that refuse to withdrawal or hold their products from the marketplace. it is not the case that the market exercises sufficient discipline to enforce voluntary compliance, and the agency can spend a lot of time, frankly, in the state of uncertainty negotiating with companies when the evidence is fairly clear. this attempts to remedy that. records, tracking, and traces again, the goal is to find the contaminated food, find it and get it as quickly as possible. there are inspections under the new legislation, and finally the concept of the international parity in which the agency says we've looked at the products coming from this particular country. we think that

drug wars. yesterday, the conflict took an american victim from the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency. special agent jaime zapata was part of an expanded american force working with mexican authorities in the ongoing battle. he was shot to death by gunmen on a highway from mexico city to monterrey. a second agent was wounded. but the worst-hit city in the drug battles is to the north, ciudad juarez, on the u.s. border. bill neely of independent television news reports on the drug war there. >> reporter: death is just around the corner, and he knows it. the streets of juarez are deadlier than any on earth, its suburbs and its center the scene of daily slaughter. ( gunshots ) midday in a middle-class area, and mexico's federal police fight seven gunmen from a drug cartel. it's not unusual; 60 people die here every week in a war that makes baghdad and kabul seem tame. death is measured in massacres-- seven here, four there, 15 in a house, ten in a ditch, executions, beheadings, brutal and gruesome. the victims are mostly young men from two drug cartels battling for control of this city a

bay area law enforcement agencies particularly in contra costa county are reeling after a narcotics agent admits that he stole drugs from his own police station. >> reporter: his bail was lowered from $100,000. on charges he resold the same drugs he helped get off the streets. >> no suspicion. >> reporter: narcotics task force board member scott holder worked with norm wielsch for six years. he had no idea he was allegedly a bad cop. >> reporter: hiding from the glare of cameras, wielsh along with butler entered no plea involving the distribution of meth, marijuana and steroids. contra costa's top narcotics officer admitted he stole drugs from a county evidence room and drug busts and then sold them back on to the streets with the help of butler. >> the is evidence kbl. >> reporter: beginning in november and alleged illegal drug activity from november 17 until just a few days ago. now district attorney mark peterson says his department will conduct a multiagency audit of the state run narcotics enforcement team. >> one person if they're really motivated to do some bad things, it's very difficult to stop. but we can

drugs stolen from an evidence locker. their arrest in venetian following a month-long undercover investigation. >> norman wells worked for 12 years for the state department bureau of narcotics enforcement, the same agency that busted him. he was a special agent supervisor of the central contra costa narcotics enforcement team and worked out of this building near the pleasant hill police department. his arrest in venetian wednesday morning triggers many questions. >> narcotics prosecutors depend more than any other type of case on the creditability of the investigating officers. >> so many past drug predictions could be jeopardized. >> it could compromise every investigation conducted by the narcotics task force under this officer's tenure. it could be something that would make the san francisco crime lab fiasco look minor by compares son. >> also arrested was 49-year-old christopher butler who runs a private detective agency in concord. >> he's been a very good tenant for six years. i believe he's innocent until proven guilty. >> they work together as antioch police officers. the department of justice launched an undercover investigation in january that culminated in their arrest. bail is set at $660,0

many in the bay area law enforcement community were rocked wednesday when the commander of a multi-agency drugy drug charges. norman wielsch, the head of the central contra costa narcotics enforcement team and a 12-year veteran of the state bureau of narcotics, was arrested wednesday in benicia on multiple charges of felony drug dealing. the state attorney general's office says the arrest was the result of an investigation that began in mid-january. wielsch is facing 20 counts for selling methamphetamine, marijuana and steroids. back to whether as we go alive look from kirkwood up in the sierra. folks are out there enjoying the slopes already this morning. a whole lot more on the way. >> reporter: more wicked whether headed our way keep track of the weather on our weather page. also check out live doppler radar to show you where the storms are headed now and where they are going ahead. get a look at the long term forecast for the seven day run the bay. that is on www.kron4.com. petaluma has a flood advisory flooding is imminent. >> james: we have live storm tracker for on our web site at kron

agency relies on today these things. food drug and cosmetic act, still basically the main enforcement tool of the agency supplemented for records access for the diseases and of course, the code of federal regulations, and then finally this, the last slide, this is the new food safety regulation that has been talked about a little bit. as has been correctly pointed out, there was no mandatory recall authority. i can tell you from personal experience there are companies that refuse to withdrawal or hold their products from the marketplace. it is not the case that the market exercises sufficient discipline to enforce voluntary compliance, and the agency can spend a lot of time, frankly, in the state of uncertainty negotiating with companies when the evidence is fairly clear. this attempts to remedy that. records, tracking, and traces again, the goal is to find the contaminated food, find it and get it as quickly as possible. there are inspections under the new legislation, and finally the concept of the international parity in which the agency says we've looked at the products coming from this particular country. we think

drug enforcement administration. we will have to look closely at that proposal to ensure it would not set it back in dealing with the drug case. one cannot eliminate an agency overnight. it performs significant functions that are critical to our law enforcement efforts and those functions can't be simply shut down and transferred without significant planning. nd inch c has been operating under the current c.r. for several months and has obligated a significant amount of funding already so it's no way to cut its funding to zero. c.b.o. scores the amendment as saving only $16 million in budget authority, not $34 million. i urge my colleagues to defeat this flake amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment of the the gentleman from arizona. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. dicks: mr. chairman, i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the the gentleman from arizona will be postponed. the clerk: section 1309, level for department of justice, general administration, justice information sharin

drug pushing. a roving wiretap order can only be issued by a judge. the law enforcement agency must minimize roving wiretaps which means that if the target isn't on the phone at the time or they're not talking about something under investigation, then the wiretap has got to be turned off. and that provides for protections and that has never been challenged for its constitutionality since it was put in the pate the yot act in 2001 -- patriot act in 2001. finally the lone wolf definition is very important because in order to trigger the patriot act surveillance or applications for patriot act surveillance, without the lone wolf there has to be a demonstration that the target is a member of a group like al qaeda. and the way al qaeda has kind of sprung out or people who have said they're al qaeda when they really night be al qaeda, -- they might not be al qaeda, lone wolf becomes absolutely vital. it's important to note that the lone wolf authority cannot be used against a u.s. citizen or a legal permanent resident. it could be used against an alien who is present in the united st

drug pushing. a roving wiretap order can only be issued by a judge. the law enforcement agency must minimize roving wiretaps which means that if the target isn't on the phone at the time or they're not talking about something under investigation, then the wiretap has got to be turned off. and that provides for protections and that has never been challenged for its constitutionality since it was put in the pate the yot act in 2001 -- patriot act in 2001. finally the lone woldefinition is very importantecause in order to trigger the patriot act surveillance or applications for patriot act surveillance, without the lone wolf there has to be a demonsation that the target is a member of a group like al qaeda. and the way al qaeda has kind of sprung out or people who have said they're al qaeda when ty really night be al qaeda, -- they might not be al qaeda, lone wolf becomes absolutely vital. it's important to note that the lone wolf authority cannot be used against a u.s. citizen or a legal permanent resident. it could be used against an alien who is present in the united states on

drug agent was arrested as well as a private investigator accused of conspiring. the agency's ongoing investigation continues, and no indication any more law enforcement agents are involvede about this story later. >> darya: chuck reed at the the state of the city address calling the state budget public enemy number one. he says closing the short fall would take more than 10 percent cut in wages and benefits city workers agreed to last year. he urges them to make them permanent. the mayor also said retirement costs must be brought under control. he said there will be no cuts to the police force, community centers would stay open. officials from new york arts and in stamford university in invitation. heat they hope they will consider campus in new york city. new york doesn't have a graduate school, because of that they have fallen behind in the effort to attract high tech companies. this new campus would be more permanent and far larger than their existing campuses. >> mark: whether not to release a new mug shot of jared, and under seal records of his house. lawyers read refuse the request to hand over the photo and release the records. journalists want to know what was t

enforcement. now, this document from which this is taken is a combination of the input of, again, multiple components of the agency. so it's ora, it's the directors of compliance for drugs, foods, vet method and all the others -- vet med and all the others and, of course, the office of the commissioner. it's a big deal. it's a big deal because you've got to go around to every one of these centers and the directors and the compliance directors and get them to agree on the things that they are all going to say publicly they are about. and with respect to enforcement, setting their philosophy what they said is that it's one of their highest priorities, and then they explained why. and their theory of, the agency's theory of the market. and that is, in simple terms, that most industry players are going to comply with the law thawz bay think that's -- because they think that's the right thing to do. it makes human sense. but there are some -- it's very difficult to tell how many with any accurate sense -- but there are some who simply will not. and for those actors they need to be put on notice that the agency is watching, and the agency is prepared to take action and, frank