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Posted: 4/1/2013 4:23:21 AM EST
In this Dec. 11, 2012 file photo, Jack Riley, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Chicago, points out local Mexican drug cartel problem areas on a map in the new interagency Strike Force office in Chicago. Looking on is DEA agent Vince Balbo. The ruthless syndicates have long been the nation’s No. 1 supplier of illegal drugs, but in the past, their operatives rarely ventured beyond the border. A wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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Posted: 4/1/2013 4:23:21 AM EST
In this Feb. 14, 2013 photo, Art Bilek, executive vice president of the Chicago Crime Commission, left, announces that Joaquin ``El Chapo'' Guzman, a drug kingpin in Mexico, has been named Chicago's Public Enemy No. 1, during a news conference in Chicago. Looking on is Jack Riley, right, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Chicago and Peter Bensinger, former Administrator of the United States DEA. Ruthless drug cartels have long been the nation’s No. 1 supplier of illegal drugs, but in the past, their operatives rarely ventured beyond the border. A wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 3/5/2013 9:38:26 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2013 file photo, a bar code is seen attached to a marijuana plant at a grow house in Denver. The bar codes are assigned to each plant and follow it through the growing and distribution process. Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use. The onetime DEA heads plan to issue joint statements Tuesday, March 5, 2013, saying the Obama administration has reacted too slowly and should immediately sue to force the states to rescind the legislation. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
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Posted: 3/5/2013 8:38:44 AM EST
In this photo taken Feb. 14, 2013, Peter Bensinger, a former Drug Enforcement Administration chief under Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Bensinger is one of eight former DEA chiefs that say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use. They plan to issue joint statements Tuesday, March 5, 2013, saying the Obama administration has reacted too slowly and should immediately sue to force the states to rescind the legislation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 3:33:38 PM EST
From left, Al Bilek, Executive Vice President of the Chicago Crime Commission, Jack Riley, Special Agent In Charge for the DEA, Chicago Field office, and Peter Bensinger former Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration announce that Joaquin ``El Chapo'' Guzman, a drug kingpin in Mexico, is Chicago's Public Enemy No. 1, during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Chicago. Guzman was singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which supplies the bulk of narcotics sold in the city. For the first time since prohibition, when the label was created for Al Capone, that anyone else has been named Public Enemy No. 1. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 3:08:35 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 1931 file photo, Chicago mobster Al Capone attends a football game in Chicago. On Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission and the Drug Enforcement Administration are scheduled to name Joaquin Guzman Loera, a cartel kingpin in Mexico, as the new Public Enemy No. 1. It will the first time since Prohibition-era gangster Capone that authorities in the city deemed a crime figure so ominous a threat to deserve the label. (AP Photo/File)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 3:08:35 AM EST
FILE - In this June 10, 1993 file photo, Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias "El Chapo" Guzman, is shown to the media after his arrest at the high security prison of Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City. Guzman escaped from a maximum security federal prison in 2001 and continues to be a fugitive. On Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission and the Drug Enforcement Administration is scheduled to name Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa crime cartel, as the new Public Enemy No. 1., the first time since Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone that authorities in the city deemed a crime figure so ominous a threat to deserve the label. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Posted: 12/21/2012 2:33:30 AM EST
In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 photo, agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration stand outside the Treasure Coast Pharmacy in Jensen Beach after a raid. shortly before it opened Tuesday morning as part of an ongoing investigation. DEA, the Florida Department of Health, Florida State Troopers, Martin County Sheriff's deputies and Boca Raton and Margate police participated in the investigation. (AP Photo/TCPalm.com, Alex Boerner) MANDATORY CREDIT: TCPALM.COM, ALEX BOERNER
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Posted: 12/6/2012 4:58:25 AM EST
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration shows a 1930s anti-marijuana movie poster as part of an exhibit at the DEA Museum and Visitors Center which opened May 10, 1999 in Arlington, Va. After the repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1933, Harry Anslinger, who headed the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, turned his attention to pot. He told of sensational crimes reportedly committed by marijuana addicts. "No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a philosopher, a joyous reveler in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer," he wrote in "Marijuana: Assassin of Youth," in 1937. On the occasion of “Legalization Day,” Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, when Washington’s new law takes effect, AP takes a look back at the cultural and legal status of the “evil weed” in American history. (AP Photo/DEA, File)
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Posted: 11/10/2012 11:16:44 AM EST
Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (front C) is escorted by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers after arriving at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, in this November 16, 2010 file handout photo. REUTERS/U.S. Department of Justice/Handout/Files
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Posted: 11/10/2012 10:55:38 AM EST
Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (front C) is escorted by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers after arriving at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, in this November 16, 2010 file handout photo. REUTERS/U.S. Department of Justice/Handout/Files
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Posted: 11/10/2012 10:25:56 AM EST
Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (front C) is escorted by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers after arriving at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, in this November 16, 2010 file handout photo. REUTERS/U.S. Department of Justice/Handout/Files
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Posted: 10/11/2012 3:08:38 AM EST
In this Sept. 7, 2012, photo a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration technician holds several pounds of Mexican meth confiscated in the St. Louis area. Methamphetamine has long been a significant problem in the United States, but the DEA says the influx of meth from south of the border is offsetting any gains made against clandestine meth labs in the U.S. DEA statistics show that the Mexican cartels are making the meth more pure, creating a faster and easier high for users, and they’re selling it more cheaply in hopes of creating a new market. Seizures at the border and in several U.S. cities are up sharply. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)
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Posted: 10/2/2012 3:38:28 PM EST
Det. Bill Silva, left, with the Bisbee Police Department, and an unnamed agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration patrol a fence line east of Naco, Ariz., after a Border Patrol agent was killed early Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. The shooting occurred after an alarm was triggered on one of the thousands of sensors placed by the U.S. government along the border, and the agents went to investigate, said Cochise County Sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Mike Christy) NO MAGS NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 9/4/2012 5:32:04 PM EST
Eduardo Arellano Felix is shown arriving with agents after being extradited from Mexico in this undated Drug Enforcement Administration handout photo released to Reuters September 4, 2012. REUTERS/DEA/Handout
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Posted: 8/15/2012 2:33:25 PM EST
This Sept. 12, 2003 photo shows the Union Family Pharmacy in Dubuque, Iowa, which was closed after authorities found evidence that it had illegally dispensed drugs on the Internet. On Aug. 9, 2012, a federal judge in Iowa dropped a 2007 indictment against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, charged in a scheme to sell prescription drugs and launder money, in part because of the size of the case file. The Drug Enforcement Administration says the evidence starts with the Dubuque raid that eventually secured the conviction of 26 defendants, including 19 doctors, in federal court in Iowa. The investigation dismantled two Internet pharmacies that illegally sold 30 million pills to customers. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)
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Posted: 8/15/2012 2:33:25 PM EST
In this Sept. 12, 2003 photo, investigators enter the Union Family Pharmacy in Dubuque, Iowa, which was closed after authorities found evidence that it had illegally dispensed drugs on the Internet. On Aug. 9, 2012, a federal judge in Iowa dropped a 2007 indictment against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, charged in a scheme to sell prescription drugs and launder money, in part because of the size of the case file. The Drug Enforcement Administration says the evidence starts with the Dubuque raid that eventually secured the conviction of 26 defendants, including 19 doctors, in federal court in Iowa. The investigation dismantled two Internet pharmacies that illegally sold 30 million pills to customers. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)
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Posted: 8/15/2012 2:33:25 PM EST
This Sept. 12, 2003 photo shows customers outside the Union Family Pharmacy in Dubuque, Iowa, after it was closed by federal agents that found evidence it had illegally dispensed drugs on the Internet. On Aug. 9, 2012, a federal judge in Iowa dropped a 2007 indictment against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, charged in a scheme to sell prescription drugs and launder money, in part because of the size of the case file. The Drug Enforcement Administration says the evidence starts with the Dubuque raid that eventually secured the conviction of 26 defendants, including 19 doctors, in federal court in Iowa. The investigation dismantled two Internet pharmacies that illegally sold 30 million pills to customers. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)
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Posted: 6/25/2012 5:23:23 PM EST
In this May 23, 2012 file photo, holes made by the Honduran army to disable a clandestine airstrip used by drug traffickers are seen on the outskirts of Ahuas, La Mosquitia region, Honduras. A U.S. embassy spokesman in Honduras said on Sunday that a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker on Saturday June 23 during a raid in the area, the first time that a DEA agent has killed someone during an operation since the agency began deploying agents several years ago to accompany local law enforcement personnel on drug raids in Latin America. A similar raid on May 11 killed four people, whom locals claimed were innocent civilians traveling the river at night. The DEA said none of its agents fired their guns in that incident.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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Posted: 6/25/2012 5:23:23 PM EST
In this May 21, 2012 aerial file photo a view of the Mosquitia region near the remote community of Ahuas, Honduras. A U.S. embassy spokesman in Honduras said on Sunday that a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker on Saturday June 23 during a raid in the area, the first time that a DEA agent has killed someone during an operation since the agency began deploying agents several years ago to accompany local law enforcement personnel on drug raids in Latin America. A similar raid on May 11 killed four people, whom locals claimed were innocent civilians traveling the river at night. The DEA said none of its agents fired their guns in that incident.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
