Mary P. Sullivan, a clerk-typist at DEA's Miami Regional Office, died on August 5, 1974, as a result of the collapse of the office building. She was 56 years of age at the time of her death. Read more >

Federal Bureau of Narcotics Agent Mansel Ross Burrell was killed by drug traffickers on December 19, 1967, in Gary, Indiana, while working undercover on a heroin investigation. He was 23 years of age at the time of his death. Agent Burrell was the youngest federal narcotics agent ever to die in the line of duty. Read more >

On December 12, 1957, Narcotics Agent Wilson M. Shee of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was killed in San Francisco, California, by a drug-addicted informant. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Agent Anker M. Bangs, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, was killed by an opium addict during an undercover operation on September 24, 1950. After supervising similar raids in Iowa and Nebraska, investigative information led him to an opium den in the Glendale Apartment Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was killed. He was 50 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Agent Andrew P. Sanderson of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Denver, Colorado, was killed on September 23, 1944, when a tire blowout caused his official government vehicle to overturn. He was 53 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Narcotics Inspector Spencer Stafford of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was 36 years of age when he was shot and killed on February 7, 1935, in Post, Texas. Inspector Stafford was fatally wounded when Sheriff W.F. Cato fired at him with a machine gun as he exited a veterinary hospital. Charged with the murder were the sheriff; his deputy, Tom Morgan; and two local doctors, L.W. Kitchen, a veterinarian, and V.A. Hartman, a physician. In addition, both doctors were charged with federal narcotics violations. Read more >

Agent John W. Crozier of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics died from injuries received in an automobile accident. He was en route to Jacksonville, Florida, after attending federal court in Savannah, Georgia, when his official government vehicle collided with an unlit tractor-trailer that was obstructing the Atlantic Coastal Highway outside of Savannah. A load of cordwood on the trailer crashed through the top of the car, fracturing his skull. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Federal Agent James R. Kerrigan died December 27, 1928, from abdominal injuries sustained on September 28, 1928, when he fell eight feet into an airway while conducting a raid on an opium den in Newark, New Jersey’s, Chinatown. Agent Kerrigan continued to work after his fall but frequently complained of sudden pains. Three months later he checked into a hospital, and doctors decided that he should undergo an abdominal operation to relieve the ailment. Agent Kerrigan showed improvement after the operation but suffered a sudden relapse and died. Read more >

Agent James E. Brown of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Prohibition, was shot three times and killed near Isleton, California, on June 7, 1928, by a suspected trafficker in Asian opium. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Federal Narcotics Inspector Louis L. Marks of the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Prohibition Service died of internal injuries from a bus accident near Monroe, Georgia, on October 24, 1924. Inspector Marks was en route to Athens, Georgia, on official business when the accident occurred. He was 45 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >