USA - DEA fatalities

[gardis]

Swim was scanning threw the DEA's official website and swim came across the men who made the ultimate sacrifice to help enforce a drug free land. Many of the men on this page had not died due too there job but most tended to be traffic accidents or for some reason a large amount of plane/helicopter crashes...
anyways of the men who died while they were undercover swim found it to be quite insane that they are enforcing these drug laws and in doing so they are creating these criminal situations they are putting themselves into. Swim is not trying to say they died in vein, they died for a cause they believed in no matter how hypocritical it seems to the person who does the research on this "war on drugs". anyways here are a couple of these ( sorry if this thread is sloppy is my first post on the site)

George Montoya began his law enforcement career with the U.S. Border Patrol after graduating from California State University in Long Beach, California in 1976, with a degree in Criminal Justice. He joined the Immigration and Naturalization Service in January 1979 and worked as a Border Patrol Agent in Campo, California, until August 1983 when he became a Criminal Investigator in Los Angeles. He became a Special Agent with DEA in September 1987 and was assigned to the Los Angeles Field Division. His first assignment in that Division was Group 4, the Asian Heroin Enforcement Group. Although Special Agent Montoya had only been with DEA a short time, he had a reputation as a keen and thorough investigator.
On February 5, 1988, Special Agent Montoya was one of three undercover agents negotiating with a Taiwanese criminal group to purchase Southeast Asian heroin for $80,000. The agents met with the trafficker and went with him at his request to a quiet Pasadena neighborhood to pick up two pounds of heroin. Unbeknownst to Special Agent Montoya and his fellow undercover agents, the traffickers had planned all along to rob and kill them for the $80,000. Special Agents Montoya and Paul Seema were shot and killed in an ambush doing the job they both loved so well. George Montoya was 34 at the time of his death.
While training in Quantico as part of Basic Agent Class 57, Special Agent Montoya was seen as a mentor by his fellow classmates. His easy-going personality and methodical investigative skills made him a quiet but effective leader when younger agents sought his help during training.
Special Agent Montoya is survived by his parents John and Margie Montoya.Each year proceeds from the Paul Seema-George Montoya Golf Tournament are donated to DEA’s Survivors Benefit Fund.



Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent William Ramos of the McAllen District Office, was shot and killed on December 31, 1986. Special Agent Ramos was killed by a drug trafficking suspect while trying to make an arrest during an undercover investigation at Las Milpas, Texas, near the Mexican border. He was 30 years of age at the time of his death. Special Agent Ramos joined the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985. Prior to becoming a DEA Special Agent, William Ramos was a U.S. Border Patrol Agent and an Assistant Prosecutor in Mojave, Arizona. Upon his graduation from the DEA Academy in 1985, Special Agent Ramos was assigned to the McAllen, Texas Resident Office.
On December 31, 1986, Special Agent Ramos posed as a drug trafficker and arranged to meet with known marijuana dealer Felipe Molina-Uribe at approximately 7:00 p.m. to purchase 300 pounds of marijuana. Special Agent Ramos and two informants met with the trafficker at a local supermarket parking lot in Las Milpas, Texas, a small suburb east of McAllen. Molina-Uribe was in Special Agent Ramos' undercover vehicle when the DEA surveillance team observed the signal for the arrest of Molina-Uribe. In the seconds it took the arrest team to arrive at the undercover vehicle, a struggle ensued between Special Agent Ramos and Molina-Uribe. During the struggle, Molina-Uribe shot Special Agent Ramos once in the chest.
Special Agent Ramos died at McAllen Methodist Medical Center the same day. In 1988, the International Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association posthumously awarded Special Agent Ramos the Medal of Valor. Special Agent Ramos was survived by his wife, Thelma; and daughters Teresa, and Zarina.






gardis added 19 Minutes and 5 Seconds later...

swim is posting this because he thinks it will be an interesting read, no other reason, as swim has found it very interesting and would just like to share.