A group of former DEA agents is urging senators to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency, Terrance Cole, over his connection to two deadly operations abroad that left dozens dead in Colombia and Mexico.
Two Texas men who posed as DEA agents to rob marijuana growers in southern Oregon were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday, and a third pleaded guilty for his role in the scheme.
Daniel Comeaux, head of the DEA’s Houston office, has been named the next chief of the Dallas Police Department.
The husband of a Salem cyclist killed by a speeding DEA agent has filed a new lawsuit, this time accusing Oregon state agencies of failing to train and supervise the agent who caused her death.
Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who is accused of leading a violent drug empire and orchestrating the 1985 torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
The family of a DEA agent killed in Mexico 40 years ago filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in San Diego federal court, seeking to hold leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel responsible under international terrorism laws.
Mexican authorities have extradited drug boss Rafael Caro Quintero to the United States, where he is wanted for the 1985 killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
Peter B. Bensinger, who led the DEA through a critical period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died at 88.
