Editing Drug Enforcement Administration (section)

== In popular culture ==
The DEA are commonly featured in [[Crime Drama|crime drama]] films and TV, as both protagonists and antagonists.
* [[Hank Schrader]] is one of the main protagonists in [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC's]] ''[[Breaking Bad]]''. He is both a DEA agent (later promoted to ASAC) and brother-in-law to drug kingpin [[Walter White (Breaking Bad)|Walter White]], unknowingly investigating Walt's alter-ego Heisenberg for the duration of the show.
* [[Javier Peña]] and [[Stephen Murphy (civil servant)|Stephen Murphy]] are two of the main protagonists in [[Netflix|Netflix's]] ''[[Narcos]]''. They are responsible for the capture and killing of the [[Drug barons of Colombia|Colombian drug lord]] [[Pablo Escobar]] on December 2, 1993, of which the show was based on.
* [[Norman Stansfield]] leads a team of corrupt DEA agents, who along with the NYPD, hunt an assassin in the 1994 movie ''[[Léon: The Professional]]''.
* In the film ''[[Sabotage (2014 film)|Sabotage]]'', a group of special agents with the DEA's Special Operations Team, are hunted down after stealing a large amount of cartel cash during a raid.