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A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent and a border patrol officer stand next to some of the over 14 tons of marijuana seized after discovering a major cross-border drug tunnel linking warehouses in Otay Mesa industrial park and Tijuana, Mexico, in Otay Mesa, California November...

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Derek Maltz, special agent in charge of Drug Enforcement Administration operations, shows what a $10 bag of heroin sold on the street would look like at a press conference in New York Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Maltz and Preet Bharara, left, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New...

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In this photo provided by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA agents escort James Rosemond after his arrest on cocaine-dealing charges, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 in New York. The arrest follows accusations last week that Rosemond, owner of Czar Entertainment, was...

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An officer from the Drug Enforcement Administration enters the pharmacy where four people were killed in a shooting a day earlier in Medford, N.Y. , Monday, June 20, 2011.

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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Chief of Operations Thomas Harrigan testifies before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on US - Central America cooperation on efforts combating drug trafficking May 25, 2011 in the Dirksen Senate Office building on Capitol Hill...

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Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Michele Leonhart takes part in a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, April 19, 2011, to announces new prescription drug safety measures and a plan to fight prescription drug abuse.

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Michele Leonhart (L), Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's Public Security Minister, attend the opening of the 28th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) in Cancun April 5, 2011.

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Michele Leonhart, acting administrator of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) in Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday April 5, 2011. Government representatives from more than 120 countries meet in...

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Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announces that the Drug Enforcement Administration has arrested several men overseas, including a man they say who agreed to support the Taliban in Afghanistan through drug sales, at a news conference in New York...

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Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announces that the Drug Enforcement Administration has arrested several men overseas, including a man they say who agreed to support the Taliban in Afghanistan through drug sales, at a news conference in New York Tuesday,...

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FILE - In this photo provided by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA agents escort James Rosemond after his arrest on cocaine-dealing charges, in this June 21, 2011 taken in New York. Rosemond, who is already jailed on federal drug-trafficking charges, has been...

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Bolivia's Deputy Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Alurralde (2nd L) and U.S. Department Of State senior official Maria Otero pose after signing an agreement in La Paz November 7, 2011. Bolivia and the U.S. have agreed to restore full diplomatic ties three years after the Andean nation...

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U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, second right, answers a question Wednesday, May 11, 2011, as he stands outside federal court in Trenton, N.J. , with Drug Enforcement Administration agent Steve Karkos, right, Ocean County assistant prosecutor Charles Kuyl, left, and assistant U.S. Attorney...

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Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (R bottom) is interviewed by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in a police station in Bangkok, Thailand, in this March 2008 photograph released on May 9, 2011. Bout, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death" in the West, argued with U.S. prosecutors in...

Reuters Pictures 9 months ago

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. Bout, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death" in the West,...

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A man gives a quick thumbs up to chanting cannabis activists outside a store during a raid by the Drug Enforcement Administration on Perry St. Thursday, April 28, 2011, in Spokane, Wash. Federal agents raided several medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane, following a warning from...

Reuters Pictures 10 months ago

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon (L) addresses the audience next to Michele Leonhart, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, during the closing ceremony of the 28th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) in Cancun April 7, 2011.

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Police officers escort alleged drug traffickers during their presentation to the press at the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police and Intelligence station in Bogota, Colombia, on September 3, 2011. A joint operation called 'Final Flight' that ended on Thursday by the Colombian...

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Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos speaks during a press conference offered at Narino Presidential Palace in Bogota, on September 2, 2011. It was announced that a joint operation that ended on Thursday by the Colombian Police, the Colombian and South Florida prosecutors' offices,...

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Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (C) speaks next to, (L to R) Colombia's Police chief Oscar Naranjo, Colombian Air Force Commander Julio Gonzalez, Colombian Navy Commander Adm Alvaro Echandia, Colombian Attorney General Viviane Morales and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District...

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Colombia's Attorney General Vivian Morales (L) talks during a joint press conference with U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer (R) offered at Narino Presidential Palace in Bogota, on September 2, 2011. They announced that a joint operation that ended on...

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In this frame grab from video released by WBAL-TV 11, Drug Enforcement Administration agents escort Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who played a killer of the same name on the hit HBO series "The Wire," as she was among dozens arrested in an early morning drug raid, Thursday, March 10, 2011, in...

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In this photo provided by U.S. authorities, Taza Gul Alizai, left, is being escorted Tuesday morning, July 26, 2011, at an undisclosed airport north of New York City. He was one of several men arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York in a drug terrorism sting overseas.

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U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. , left, announces operation "Bright Lights Big City," a Federal Racketeering Indictment against members of the Varrio Azusa 13 gang in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 7, 2011. At right, Drug Enforcement Administration, Special Agent Briane Grey. A Latino gang...

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Police officers escort alleged drug traffickers at a police station in Bogota, Thursday, June 2, 2011. After a five year joint investigation that began in Boston, between the Colombian and Italian police as well as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, a total of twenty men,...