Task Force Officer Terry W. McNett of the Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sheriff's Office was shot and killed on February 2, 1988, while executing a search warrant in Wichita, Kansas. Task Force Officer Detective McNett was assigned to a Drug Enforcement Administration task force. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

George Montoya began his law enforcement career with the U.S. Border Patrol after graduating from California State University in Long Beach, California, in 1976 with a degree in criminal justice. He joined the Immigration and Naturalization Service in January 1979 and worked as a border patrol agent in Campo, California, until August 1983 when he became a criminal investigator in Los Angeles. He became a special agent with DEA in September 1987 and was assigned to the Los Angeles Field Division. Read more >

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Paul S. Seema of the Los Angeles Field Division died on February 6, 1988, of gunshot wounds he received the previous day during an undercover operation. He was 51 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Everett E. Hatcher of the New York Field Division was shot and killed on February 28, 1989, during an undercover investigation on Staten Island. He was 46 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Pilot Alan H. Winn, 37, was killed August 13, 1991, in a helicopter crash during an operations flight over Hawaii. Read more >

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Rickie C. Finley was killed on May 20, 1989, in a plane crash as he was returning from a jungle operation to a base camp in Lima, Peru. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Joseph Aversa of the New York State Police was shot to death on March 5, 1990, while serving on the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was 31 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Wallie Howard, Jr., of the Syracuse, New York, Police Department was killed on October 30, 1990, while serving on the Central New York Drug Enforcement Task Force. Howard was shot during an undercover operation when drug traffickers from Brooklyn, New York, attempted to rob him of $42,000 he had for the purchase of two kilograms of cocaine. He was 31 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent and Pilot Eugene T. McCarthy was killed February 2, 1991, in a helicopter accident in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. He was 35 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent George D. Althouse was killed on May 28, 1992, during an attempted car theft in Shelby County, Alabama. He was 28 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >