The officials are also considering raising penalties for marijuana traffickers and producers.
They are accused of protecting cocaine and marijuana traffickers from arrest in return for payoffs.
The three officers are charged with having provided protection from arrest in return for payoffs from cocaine and marijuana traffickers operating along the gulf coast.
Mr. Glenny sets a fast pace as he races from one criminal hot spot to another, riding with marijuana traffickers in British Columbia, walking into pachinko parlors in Tokyo, visiting brothels in Tel Aviv and scoping out the sex clubs in Dubai.
Mr. Christie could explain how his law is the nation's most restrictive and how the federal Justice Department has indicated that its agents will rightly direct their energies in New Jersey to go after big-time marijuana traffickers, not doctors or alternative centers helping the desperately ill.
The United States attorney for the Eastern District of California, Benjamin B. Wagner, a 2009 Obama appointee, wants Mr. Davies to agree to a plea that includes a mandatory minimum of five years in prison, calling the case a straightforward prosecution of "one of the most significant commercial marijuana traffickers to be prosecuted in this district".
Either way, Carl A. Williams found his 35-year career with the New Jersey State Police -- the last five as its leader -- swiftly ended in 1999 after a newspaper quoted him as saying that cocaine and marijuana traffickers were most likely to be members of minority groups.
Interviewing 40 incarcerated high-level cocaine and marijuana traffickers, Reuter and Haaga (1989) discovered that their networks typically take the form of small partnerships consisting of temporary and dynamic coalitions of dealers.
Authorities said an Operation Alliance drug task force of federal, state and local officers had arranged a 2 p.m. meeting with a group of suspected marijuana traffickers in a strip mall in the Eastlake neighborhood of Chula Vista.
As the US government prepares to release 6,000 nonviolent federal prisoners this fall, Fischer's ordeal, along those of the inmates he's trying to help, sheds light on how hard it is for nonviolent marijuana traffickers serving long-term or life sentences to win back their own freedom.
