Wall of Honor

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 >

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 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 >