内容摘要：The AP’s findings — based on interviews with current and former agents, as well as a trove of highly sensitive Justice Department files — offer an unprecedented glimpse into the fraud, shoddy oversight and profligate DEA spending that enabled Marín’s ascent. The corruption was so extensive, the officials said, that it reminded them of one of the most infamous law enforcement scandals in U.S. history — the FBI’s unscrupulous dealings with

The AP’s findings — based on interviews with current and former agents, as well as a trove of highly sensitive Justice Department files — offer an unprecedented glimpse into the fraud, shoddy oversight and profligate DEA spending that enabled Marín’s ascent. The corruption was so extensive, the officials said, that it reminded them of one of the most infamous law enforcement scandals in U.S. history — the FBI’s unscrupulous dealings with

Family and friends carry the coffin of alleged drug user Robert Manuel Jr. during funeral rites at Manila’s North Cemetery, Philippines, Sept. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Family and friends carry the coffin of alleged drug user Robert Manuel Jr. during funeral rites at Manila’s North Cemetery, Philippines, Sept. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Family and friends walk alongside tombs while attending the funeral of alleged drug user Marcelo Salvador at a public cemetery in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Family and friends walk alongside tombs while attending the funeral of alleged drug user Marcelo Salvador at a public cemetery in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Cemetery workers carry the coffin of alleged drug user Marcelo Salvador during funeral rites in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Cemetery workers carry the coffin of alleged drug user Marcelo Salvador during funeral rites in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Everything he had been holding — the coffee, the chocolate powder — had scattered across the ground when the first shots rang out. If he was running for his life, how could he have held on to shabu, she asks, but dropped the rest?

She won’t bring it up with the police, though, because “we don’t want any trouble,” she says. “What’s the point? What for?”

There is a certain shame that hangs over the families of slain drug users here, and most don’t know where to turn for help. Few trust the country’s notoriously corrupt police. Pointing fingers at killers who are still at large would also carry great risk.A bird is hand-fed a worm at the non-profit wildlife park Selva Teneek where animals are being treated for heat stress amid a continuing heat wave and drought, in Ciudad Valles, Mexico, Saturday, June 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mauricio Palos)

A bird is hand-fed a worm at the non-profit wildlife park Selva Teneek where animals are being treated for heat stress amid a continuing heat wave and drought, in Ciudad Valles, Mexico, Saturday, June 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mauricio Palos)A starling sits on the back of a horse as another looks on at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

A starling sits on the back of a horse as another looks on at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team release five elephants at Aberdare National Park, located in central Kenya Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)