Wall of Honor

Employees of DEA and its predecessor agencies killed in the line of duty.

George F. White

George F. White

Special Agent

May 1, 1941 - March 25, 1973

Special Agent Pilot George F. White of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was killed on March 25, 1973, after his plane hit a power line near Tucson, Arizona. He was 31 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Frank Tummillo

Frank Tummillo

Special Agent

January 3, 1947 - October 12, 1972

Special Agent Frank Tummillo of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was killed during an undercover operation in New York City on October 12, 1972. He was 25 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Gene A. Clifton

Gene A. Clifton

Police Officer

November 28, 1943 - November 19, 1971

Police Officer Gene A. Clifton died on November 19, 1971, as a result of injuries received on October 1 during a joint operation with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Officer Clifton was fatally wounded when a team of officers attempted to serve a search warrant and a suspect fired a handgun through a door, striking Clifton in the abdomen. He was 27 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Hector Jordan

Hector Jordan

Special Agent

November 26, 1931 - October 14, 1970

Special Agent Hector Jordan, a supervisory special agent with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, died on October 14, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois, from injuries he received in an unprovoked attack by a roving gang of seven assailants. He was 38 years of age at the time of his death. Read more >

Mansel R. Burrell

Mansel R. Burrell

Agent

September 23, 1944 - December 19, 1967

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 >

Wilson M. Shee

Wilson Michael Shee

Agent

January 2, 1921 - December 12, 1957

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 >

Anker M. Bangs

Anker M. Bangs

Agent

October 9, 1899 - September 24, 1950

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

Andrew P. Sanderson

Agent

November 20, 1890 - September 23, 1944

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 >

Spencer Stafford

Spencer Stafford

Agent

February 11, 1898 - February 7, 1935

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 >

John W. Crozier

John W. Crozier

Agent

June 18, 1898 - November 16, 1934

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 >