Lubbock Sheriff severing ties with DEA (Texas)

KCBD Channel 11 ^ | 20 February 2014 | Sarah-Blake Morgan and L. Scott Mann

[Army Air Corps]

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) -

It's a partnership meant to keep drugs and the people who deal them off the streets. But now, the Lubbock County Sheriff says he doesn't want his office working with these federal agents.

Our investigation has uncovered a letter written by Sheriff Kelly Rowe, terminating the county's relationship with the Drug Enforcement Agency.

The issue stems from a massive drug bust which was executed on February 4th, 2013. The month-long investigation took law enforcement from Lubbock down to Odessa and up to Borger.

"All in all, we ended up seizing two homes, obviously all of the drugs, the cash...ten weapons that were seized," Rowe said.

Rowe tells us his deputies led the charge and were assisted by DPS, the DEA and other local agencies.

[Jet Jaguar]

Interesting...

[xone]

DEA = not a good partner in drug busts.

[Army Air Corps]

And that was the County Sheriff’s conclusion after the DEA released information that could place his officers at risk.

[Gabrial]

Goes well, and DEA leaks the success - endangering the lives of local officers.

Goes bad, it's the fault of the locals.

[xone]

I’ve seen the DEA and their response on a number of ‘joint’ ops. The BP didn’t like them, the Sheriff’s office didn’t like them much because they reneged on handling drugs after a bust. Other Cal State entities wouldn’t do anything with them. On the other hand, state agencies loved the federal sentencing hammer.

[RitaOK]

Nice kiss off by Sheriff Rowe. Few now days will even attempt to jerk a chain or strike a standard with these unserious actors who wear an enforcement badge, but look more for a camera and applause.

[MasterGunner01]

It is really difficult to say which is the more corrupt and compromised agency — the DEA or the BATFE. In a sane world, the DEA and BATFE would be shutdown and disbanded. However, that will never happen because there aren't any departments in FedGov that will take the ex-employees. [One can never fire a FedGov employee, they are merely transferred to another department or agency.]

[BuffaloJack]

As I recall, a sheriff has jurisdiction in all cases and federal agencies are required to get a local sheriff’s permission before conducting any operations with the sheriff’s jurisdictional area. This man has the legal authority to put a monkey wrench into the DEA’s activities.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

The “War on Drugs” has accomplished one thing only: the militarization of our local police forces and psychologically preparing them to dissociate from their communities morally and ethically which would allow them to cooperate bloodily with the military in a martial law/police state scenario.

You would be smart to watch the recent documentary “How to Make Money Selling Drugs”.