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Jr. Special Agent Training Manual

Welcome to the DEA Museum and Visitors Center

Special Agents are a very important part of the Drug Enforcement Administration. They must be well trained in many areas and their job is to enforce the federal drug laws of the United States of America. As a Junior Special Agent, your mission is to complete the assignments and solve the case in this training manual.

Suspect 1: Ben Intrubble is a construction worker who lives in Smallstown, NY. He has previously been arrested for cooking and selling Methamphetamine and has developed a serious Oxycontin addiction.

Suspect 4: Juan NaCook works at a Pizza Parlor in Smallstown, NY. He has previously been arrested for cooking and selling Methamphetamine. Juan suffers from an Oxycontin addiction that developed when visiting friends in Turkey.

Suspect 2: Janeed Tewbye works at the

grocery store in Smallstown, NY.

Janeed spent time in jail for cooking and selling

Methamphetamine. Janeed swears he has been drug-free

since his release and has never failed a drug test.

Suspect 3: Eileen Wennestand currently works as a hostess at a restaurant in Smallstown, NY, but has spent time in jail for cooking and selling Methamphetamine. Eileen has a history of using Meth, but has never tried another drug.

Suspects

Suspect 5: Anita Fixx lives in Smallstown, NY. She cooked and sold Methamphetamine with her friend Eileen Wennestand

to help pay some bills.After spending time in jail, Anita developed an addiction to Oxycontin and is still unable to find a full time job.

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As a Special Agent of the DEA it is important for you to understand the role that each person plays in solving a case.

Diversion

A Diversion Investigator monitors and tracks pharmaceuticals and their components to

make sure they are not diverted to

the market.

Activity 1: You come across a suspicious shipment record. An unusually large amount of Ephedrine (a stimulant found in Methamphetamine) is being shipped across the world.

You will complete the first activities as a DEA Diversion Investigator.

Find the French Connection information in the exhibit and circle the 3 countries mentioned in the information.

The suspect involved with this case is moving the Ephedrine through the same route as the French Connection.

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Activity 2: During your investigation you come across a coded letter written by the suspect involved with the case. The suspect is moving the Ephedrine to its final location. You must decode the letter to discover where the Ephedrine is being smuggled.

Diversion

Jon

Dear Sirs: The items I saw yesterday will be perfect! I’ll leave my card in Mar-seilles and come back in the af-ternoon. The Red Hotel Rocks! My suitcase has many stickers. Meet the next taxi at 5:00 since the airport shuttle van needs new tires. Hope New York is cool! In August I’ll visit my third vacation spot.

To decode the message, write down every 4th word.

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Which suspect should you eliminate? ______________ Why did you eliminate him/her? _________________

Great job decoding the letter! You found out that the Ephedrine is being sent to New York. You will complete the next activities as a DEA Special Agent.

Activity 3: You find out that the Ephedrine is being delivered to a remote trailer park in Smallstown, NY. As an agent you must go undercover to do surveillance.

Study the clothes of the suspects. Which suspect can you eliminate based on their shoes?

Special Agent

Find these items that DEA agents wore during undercover investigations.

A Special Agent does investigations, gathers evidence, and makes arrests to bring about the conviction of drug traffickers and money launderers.

The trailer park is very muddy this time of year and it is hard to walk without proper shoes.

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Suspect 1 Suspect 2 Suspect 3 Suspect 4 Suspect 5

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While undercover you come across a trailer. Is there enough evidence in this trailer to suspect that this is the location of a methamphetamine lab?

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Activity 4: Find these items in the museum.

What drug can be made from these items? _____________________

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Circle the items that might be evidence

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What kind of pills are these? ________________

Chemist

A Forensic Chemist works in the lab and field to collect and analyze drugs and other chemicals to determine type, composition, and source.

Activity 5: You examine the scene and find a bottle of small, round pills. Use the “DEA Jobs” touchscreen kiosk to determine what drugs these are. Tap the “Forensic Chemist” option and follow the directions until you match these pills with their name.

You did a great job as an undercover agent! Because of your observations, the trailer is now classed as a crime scene. Next, you must examine the crime scene as a Forensic Chemist.

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While undercover, you heard that the suspect used this specific drug. Go back to your suspect list. Which suspects are known to have an addiction to this drug? 1. 2. 3. Which suspect should you eliminate? _______________

Chemist

Activity 6: Forensic Chemists are trained to analyze fingerprints. You have pulled two fingerprints from objects found at the crime scene.

Which suspect should you eliminate? ___________

Crime Scene Prints Suspect 1

Suspect 4

Suspect 5

Draw lines to connect the matching fingerprints.

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Great work matching the fingerprints! The Special Agents arrest the suspects and bring them in. You are now a DEA Intelligence Analyst and must complete the final activities.

Intelligence

Activity 7: Examine the contents of each suspect’s wallet. Remember to refer back to the information you have already learned.

Hint: Keep in mind which countries you identified as part of the drug trade.

Intelligence Analysts gather and analyze information world-wide to uncover hidden patterns and trends. It is prefered that the Intelligence Analyst is able to speak Spanish.

Suspect 1

Suspect 4

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Who is the guilty suspect? ________________________ Why is he the guilty suspect? Gather all of the information you have collected. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Intelligence

Activity 8: To solve the case, you must interview the suspects. Read the interview questions and suspects’ answers.

Hint: The guilty suspect is lying and the innocent suspect is telling the truth.

Suspect 1: Question: Why were your fingerprints found at the crime scene?

Answer: There’s no way my prints were at the scene. I’ve never even been to Smallstown.

Suspect 2: Question: Why were your fingerprints found at the crime scene?

Answer: I honestly have no idea why my prints would be there. I was working at the pizza parlor all day. You can check with my boss.

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Why were his fingerprints at the scene? ______________________________________________________________________________

Congratulations! You solved the case! Find a museum exmployee at the front desk to take your Junior Special Agent oath and get your official Jr. Special Agent certificate.

You figured out who the guilty suspect was, but can you figure out why the innocent suspect’s fingerprints were found at the crime scene? Reexamine the photo:

Written and edited by Sam McLaren

Artwork by Macs McLaren

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