United States Drug Enforcement Administration

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Pilot Alan H. Winn, 37, was killed August 13, 1991, in a helicopter crash during an operations flight over Hawaii. Special Agent Winn graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. While in the Marine Corps, he...

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent and Pilot Eugene T. McCarthy was killed February 2, 1991, in a helicopter accident in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. He was 35 years of age at the time of his death. Before joining DEA in August 1988, McCarthy graduated from the U.S...

Wallie Howard, Jr., of the Syracuse, New York, Police Department, was killed on October 30, 1990, while serving on the Central New York Drug Enforcement Task Force. Howard was shot during an undercover operation when drug traffickers from Brooklyn, New York, attempted to rob him of $42,000 he had for...

Joseph Aversa of the New York State Police was shot to death on March 5, 1990, while serving on the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was 31 years of age at the time of his death. Aversa joined the New York State Police in March 1984. During his...

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Rickie C. Finley was killed on May 20, 1989, in a plane crash as he was returning from a jungle operation to a base camp in Lima, Peru. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. For almost seven years, Special...

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Everett E. Hatcher of the New York Field Division was shot and killed on February 28, 1989, during an undercover investigation on Staten Island. He was 46 years of age at the time of his death. Prior to joining DEA, Hatcher spent six years in...

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Paul S. Seema of the Los Angeles Field Division, died on February 6, 1988, of gunshot wounds he received the previous day during an undercover operation. He was 51 years of age at the time of his death. Special Agent Seema was a native of...

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...

Task Force Officer Terry W. McNett, of the Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sheriff's Office, was shot and killed on February 2, 1988, while executing a search warrant in Wichita, Kansas. Task Force Officer Detective McNett was assigned to a Drug Enforcement Administration task force. He was 36 years of age at...

Special Agent Arthur L. Cash graduated from West Virginia University in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree. After graduating from college, Special Agent Cash served as a border patrol agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Agent Cash joined DEA in 1974 and was transferred to the San Luis, Arizona...