Josh

As acting director, Josh leads the DEA Museum's departments by overseeing operations, managing the budget, and building partnerships with other agencies and museums. He collaborates with the Museum team to develop new exhibits, educational programs, the DEA's annual Memorial Service, and more.

One of Josh's favorite artifacts in the Museum's collection is a popular figure in narco-culture, the made-up saint known as Santa Muerte. Follow this link to see a video about it. This patron saint of drug dealers is increasingly common in communities along smuggling routes in Northern Mexico and across the U.S.-Mexico border. The artifact includes a grinning, jeweled Grim Reaper-like skeleton. It stands 3.5 feet tall, wielding a scythe, holding a skull, and clad in a robe of hundred-dollar bills. DEA agents broke one of the statue's hands off in search of hidden contraband after discovering it in the back seat of a drug dealer's car.