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Article: DEA agents took credit for arrests they had no part in, official confirms.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 27, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Asa Hutchinson confirmed Wednesday that agents in the DEA's San Juan, Puerto Rico, office had claimed credit for hundreds of arrests in which they had played no role and he called their actions "wrong and irresponsible."
Hutchinson also confirmed that several DEA agents had been disciplined in connection with the miscounting.
"There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of reporting," he said of the inflated statistics. Citing privacy concerns, Hutchinson declined to spell out disciplinary action against the agents, except to say that it ranged from a 14-day suspension to a letter of reprimand.