The DEA Once Turned A 14-Year-Old Into A Drug Kingpin. Welcome To The War On Drugs

The DEA Once Turned A 14-Year-Old Into A Drug Kingpin. Welcome To The War On Drugs


"…the DEA instructs agents not to tell the truth about sources of key intelligence."
"The "highest-paid snitch in DEA history" was also found to have lied repeatedly in testimony. Despite his reputation, he recently resumed work with the DEA."
"The DEA allows informants to break the law, but have no records as to how often it happens."
"One of America's most notorious terrorists once served as a DEA informant."
"Another informant allegedly shot and killed a man who confronted him for molesting his child."
"The DEA strung one informant along for 20 years with the promise of citizenship. She still hasn't received it."
The DEA once turned a teenager into a drug kingpin so he could act as an informant."
"I was just a kid when the agents pulled me out of high school in the ninth grade and had me out to 3 in the morning every night," Wershe told The Fix in 2013. "They gave me a fake ID when I was 15 that said I was 21 so I could travel to Vegas and to Miami to do drug deals….But in 1988, then 17 and no longer an informant, Wershe was pulled over and busted for work in the same drug business as the one to which the DEA had introduced him. The 17 pounds of cocaine found in his car resulted in a life sentence. He's the only convict still behind bars in Michigan to receive a life sentence as a minor under the state's now-repealed "650-lifer" law. Many of the targets whom Wershe helped put in jail have long since been released."
The Associated Press reported in August that the DEA had paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over nearly 20 years as an informant to pass confidential information about passenger reservations. But as the AP reported, Amtrak police are already part of an anti-drug task force that includes the DEA, and would have given the agency that information free of charge."