Josh Goodman, Latin America correspondent, Miami, and Jim Mustian, federal law enforcement reporter, New York, for months of source work to break the story that a once-standout DEA agent known for lavish spending was arrested on charges of conspiring to launder money with a Colombian drug cartel he was supposed to be fighting. Their exclusive on the arrest came a year after they first broke the story of the alleged wrongdoing. https://bit.ly/2T60s2l
AP Exclusive: DEA agent accused of conspiring with cartel
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Florida, June 13, 2016. On Feb. 21, 2020, the FBI arrested U.S. federal narcotics agent Jose Irizarry and his wife, Nathalia Gomez Irizarry, at their residence in Puerto Rico, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the arrest. Jose Irizarry has been charged with conspiring to launder money with the very same Colombian drug cartels he was supposed to be fighting.
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