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Mark Trouville, special agent in charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), had walked through the front door of the Phoenix Building west of the Miami International Airport countless times before, always walking fast past the right-hand corridor, making a beeline for the elevators to get out of the way in case the boss was coming around the corner. Now that would be him. He had not expected to be back in Miami. More than any other DEA field division, Miami depends on the military for support, and the Navy and the Coast Guard routinely act on DEA intelligence to intercept drug shipments at sea. There are fewer military assets supporting DEA now than there were 10 years ago, but seizures are considerably larger because DEA has become much better at developing good intelligence to direct the intercepts. If Trouville gets discouraged by the never-ending cat-and-mouse game of drug enforcement, he does not show it.
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Drug Warrior
In January 2005, when Mark Trouville pulled his car into the parking lot outside the Drug Enforcement Administration Miami field division, a chill ran down his spine. Twenty-six years earlier, he had pulled into the same parking lot as a rookie special agent with a lot to learn and an appetite to learn it. Now, two and a half decades later, he was the special agent in charge. The boss.
He had walked through the front door of the Phoenix Building west of the Miami International Airport countless times before, always walking fast past the right-hand corridor, making a beeline for the elevators to get out of the way in case the boss was coming around the corner. Now that would be him. "To walk in here and make the right turn was an incre...See the full content of this document
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