1. The Cienfuegos Affair: Inside the Case that Upended America's Drug War.
- Author
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Golden, Tim and Burke, Doris
- Subjects
DRUG control ,HUMAN trafficking ,GANG violence ,BRIBERY ,DRUG traffic ,JUDGES - Abstract
After nearly a decadeon the drug unit of the Las Vegas police force, Beck earneda spot on a federal task force that brought state and localnarcotics enforcement together with DEA agents to hunt downthe biggest traffickers they could find. On Dec. 9, 2015, Beck and other agents were sitting attheir cubicles in the DEA's warehouselike offices indowntown Las Vegas when they saw a long exchange ofmessages between H-2 and one of his top lieutenants, DanielSilva Gárate, a flashy, 38-year-old trafficker knownas H-9. Two years ago, the DEA arrested a Mexican general, hopingto lay bare the high-level corruption at the heart oforganized crime. Timothy Shea, the DEA administrator,happened to be in Los Angeles on the day Cienfuegos wasarrested there, and officials said he was informed about itin advance by the DEA agent in charge, whose agents helpedmake the arrest. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2022