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...Eagle One as it tried to sneak up the California coast toward Seattle. Just outside Puget Sound, drug agents boarded the ship and took it into dock, where they seized 447 lbs. of cocaine in a welded-shut compartment. Says Robert Dreisbach, spokesman for the Seattle office of the DEA: "The smugglers are moving away from the heavily patrolled ports, and we are particularly vulnerable because of our less dense population along an immense amount of coastline...
...agents have been hamstrung in their efforts to catch smuggling kingpins south of the border because many Mexican government officials are on the traffickers' payroll. When smugglers tortured and murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar near Guadalajara last March, Mexican investigators seemed to be looking the other way. But honest members of Mexico's government are just as upset as Americans about the violence bred by smuggling. In a massacre last November, an army of 50 marijuana traffickers equipped with automatic weapons shot and killed 17 Mexican police officers and seven guides...
Frustrated U.S. drug busters may have decided to go outside diplomatic channels to apprehend one reputed marijuana smuggler, Rene Martin Verdugo, who is suspected of being involved in the DEA agent's killing. Verdugo, widely known as La Rana (the Frog), was walking the streets of tiny San Felipe, Mexico, on Jan. 24 when six masked men pounced on him and whisked him into an unmarked car. They drove their blindfolded captive north to an obscure stretch of the Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., where they handed him through a hole in the fence to U.S. marshals...
Coleman, a 20-year veteran of federal narcotics investigations, replaces Robert M. Stutman, who last month assumed control of the DEA's biggest office in New York after six years as New England's regional director...
Like his predecessor, Coleman views DEA's success not in the number of arrests agents make but in the quality of arrests...