Word: deas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optimism by agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Felix Gallardo, the richest and most cunning member of the infamous "Guadalajara cartel," is blamed for exporting at least two tons of cocaine to the U.S. each month. He is a prime suspect in the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican...
...chose to carry it on board. And, as investigators discovered, Sokolow used an assumed name and stayed in Miami only 48 hours. In short, his actions matched those in the behavior profiles used by the Drug Enforcement Administration to spot would-be drug traffickers. When he returned to Honolulu, DEA agents arrested Sokolow and searched his bags, which contained 1,063 grams of cocaine...
...Customs Service, insist that drug profiles are meant only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend on the individual professional judgments of officers. Officials deny the documents are stereotypical portraits of disfavored groups. "They're more of a mental checklist," says Harry Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others are not so sure. "After 23 years in customs law, you notice that inspectors look for certain things," says Los Angeles attorney Leonard Fertman. "If you're coming from Central America without a camera or luggage and you have a beard, you may spend more time...
...DEA gigolo, thanks to hair-salon owner Miriam Guzman. Portell met her when she was sitting alone and lonely in a Florida restaurant, dated her, borrowed money from her and asked her to set up a coke deal. Guzman's first trial ended in a hung jury last fall. Since then her attorney has been gathering evidence in an effort to prove official misconduct. At a hearing to dismiss charges against Guzman last month, Miami Federal Judge William Hoeveler posed a pointed query: "Is there any question in anybody's mind that this man is not only a thief...
...perhaps the President might be wiser to stay with the existing Minuteman. -- Why U.S. Jews are unhappy with the rigid policies of Israel's Yitzhak Shamir. -- House Republicans put some lash in their whip by electing contentious Newt Gingrich as their No. 2 man. -- The swain of cocaine: a DEA Don Juan made cases by making love...