What’s Happening Around Indiana

Save the Dates! February 21 – 23, 2024

IDEA is having their 37th Annual Training Conference at the Sheraton Hotel (8787 Keystone Crossing) in Indianapolis To register for this event, please go to the TRAINING tab Everyone at the Indiana Drug Enforcement Association hope to see you there! THIS IS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL ONLY (Active or
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Indiana police officer killed same day ATF agents shot in Chicago

A Chicago police officer and two federal agents were shot hours earlier in Chicago By Louis Casiano| Fox News An Indiana police officer was shot and killed near a federal building Wednesday, hours after an officer in Chicago along with two federal agents were shot while working undercover  Authorities in Terre Haute have not said what led to the shooting but were initially looking for a suspect believed to be driving a Ford F-150 truck with rear-end
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Carroll County, Maryland’s WIPEOUT Drug Making Rounds

by Jenny Fulginiti Updated: 1:55 PM EDT Mar 22, 2021 A new, dangerous drug mixture referred to as WIPEOUT is potentially making its rounds in Carroll County, health department officials say The Health Department says WIPEOUT is believed to contain an extremely dangerous mixture of Fentanyl, Cocaine and Xylazine and is being sold in gel capsules, but it has not been confirmed Xylazine is drug approved for veterinary use and is commonly used as an adulterant in heroin Ingesting
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Police Prosecutor Update

SEARCH AND SEIZURESEARCH INCIDENT TO ARREST On December 1, 2020, the Indiana Supreme Court issued its decision in Johnson v State, _ NE3d _ (Ind 2020) and overruled the decision in Johnson v State, 137 NE3d 1038 (Ind Ct App 2019), which was reported in the Police Prosecutor Update, Issue No 331, January 2020 A casino patronreported to a security officer that an individual wearing a white hat had approached him in the casino and asked, “if he wanted to buy white girl,” which he
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2021 Conference Update and Membership Information

IDEA Membership: On October 14, 2020, the Indiana Drug Enforcement Association’s Board of Directors met to vote on the annual training conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis  By a unanimous decision, there will NOT be a 2021 conference due to the difficulties of social distancing required with COVID-19 ·        The 2020 membership will be extended through 2021 and will continue until the next conference scheduled for February 23
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