Charles M. Bassing

Jul 24, 1986

Criminal Investigator Bassing, Arkansas State Police, was killed on July 24, 1986, in a helicopter crash in Mt. Ida, Arkansas. He was 33 years of age at the time of his death. Criminal Investigator Bassing was participating in a Drug Enforcement Administration...

Enrique S. Camarena

Feb 9, 1985

Special Agent Enrique S. Camarena, of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Guadalajara, Mexico, Resident Office, was kidnapped and tortured by Mexican drug traffickers on February 7, 1985. It is believed that Special Agent Camerena’s death actually...

Marcellus Ward

Dec 3, 1984

On December 3, 1984, Detective Marcellus Ward, of the Baltimore, Maryland, Police Department, was shot and killed while working on an undercover assignment. Detective Ward was assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Baltimore District Office Task...

Larry N. Carwell

Jan 9, 1984

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Larry N. Carwell of the Houston District Office, died on January 9, 1984, in a helicopter crash during an operations flight near the Bahamas. He was 39 years of age at the time of his death. During the 1980’s the...

Thomas J. Devine

Sep 25, 1982

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Thomas J. Devine, a Group Supervisor at the Newark Field Division, died on September 25, 1982, in Passaic, New Jersey of complications from gunshot wounds he received on October 12, 1972, during an undercover investigation...

Robert C. Lightfoot

Nov 23, 1977

After graduating from Tulane University, Special Agent Robert C. Lightfoot worked for the Agency for International Development in Vietnam and Thailand, and assisted the Thai Border Patrol Police before joining the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1974. Agent...