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Former Denver Bronco star Travis Henry is facing more than a 15-yard penalty. Maybe more like 15 years.

By Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post
DENVER — Former Broncos running back Travis Henry was arrested yesterday along with an accomplice for a series of large cocaine sales out of Centennial, according to federal authorities.
Charges were filed against Henry and James Mack this morning in U.S. District Court in Denver, according to a news release by Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The drug sales involved more than five kilograms of cocaine, worth more than $100,000, according to an arrest warrant affidavit that referred to Henry as the “money guy” in an ongoing multi-state drug conspiracy.
Henry told one Billings, Mont., customer that he and his family were all “dead” if they didn’t come up with $40,000 worth of cocaine lost when their home was robbed.

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Mailmen know, rain, sleet or snow, they must deliver. But one Portland, Ore. mailman took the delivery vow a little too far. How far? Far enough to get the  DEA’s attention.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A citizens complaint has led a pot-dealing postman from package delivery to prison time.
Ronald Berkan, a 48-year-old postman in Veronia, Ore., was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison, following his guilty plea last April on one charge of marijuana distribution to a person under 21 years old.
The delivery occurred on his mail route in the Cedar Mill area of Washington County. As part of the sentence, almost $3,000 of drug proceeds Berkan had collected was also forfeited.
The legal investigation began in 2006 when federal authorities received a citizens complaint that a uniformed postal carrier was offering marijuana for sale on his route.

Prosecutors continued to question an ex-friend of Sen. Ted Stevens on Wednesday, hoping to deliver a knockout punch that will put Stevens away.

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The investigation into the firings of U.S. Attorneys is far from over and the White House could be more involved than first suspected. The only problem is: the White House has stonewalled and impeded the probe. Ultimately, will there be justice in Justice?

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — In 18 months of searching, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine and Office of Professional Responsibility chief H. Marshall Jarrett have uncovered new e-mail messages hinting at heightened involvement of White House lawyers and political aides in the firings of nine federal prosecutors two years ago.
But they could not probe much deeper because key officials declined to be interviewed and a critical timeline drafted by the White House was so heavily redacted that it was “virtually worthless as an investigative tool,” the authorities said.

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In the end, posing as a DEA agent was not a very good idea. Unfortunately, at the time, Bill Jakob thought it was. His attorney says Jakob just wanted to be liked. Well, hopefully he’ll find friends in prison — or maybe even in Hollywood where he’s landed a movie deal.

By Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
ST. LOUIS — Bill Jakob has, in recent years, been caught in his share of lies and scams.
His most famous was impersonating a federal law enforcement agent, kicking down doors and arresting people in the small Franklin County town of Gerald.
That got him in the news across the country. It also got him a Hollywood movie deal and an upcoming segment on the TV news show “60 Minutes.”
It also will likely earn him five or more years in federal prison after his guilty plea Monday to 23 felony charges.
Jakob’s motivation for the scam? His lawyer, Joel Schwartz, said it was partly a “desire to be liked and to succeed.”

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