Dea Agents

Two Drug Enforcement Administration agents have been taken off duty temporarily as investigators probe an alleged bribery and obstruction of justice scam by two Miami men, the agency said Monday. DEA spokesman Terry Parman denied that the two agents--Larry Castillo and David Tinsley, both part of a DEA enforcement group in Florida--were suspended. He said the two agents are not accused of any wrongdoing.

A federal drug agent suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend in Orange County last week shot and killed himself Saturday while being chased by police in Louisiana's bayou country, officials said. Tony Gerard Bailey, 35, had been the subject of a nationwide search since Wednesday when witnesses and police said he shot and killed Veda Harris and wounded her sister, Wendy Campbell, in a jealous rage at Campbell's home in Fullerton.

A federal agent suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend in Orange County last week shot and killed himself Saturday while being chased by police in Louisiana's bayou country, officials said. Tony Gerard Bailey, 35, had been the subject of a nationwide search since Wednesday, when witnesses and police said he shot and killed Veda Harris and wounded her sister, Wendy Campbell, in a jealous rage at Campbell's home in Fullerton.

A federal drug agent remained at large Friday as authorities stepped up their nationwide search and prosecutors filed a murder charge against him in the shooting of his ex-girlfriend. Tony Gerard Bailey, 35, has not been seen since late Wednesday, when witnesses and police say he killed Veda Harris and wounded her sister, Wendy Campbell, in a jealous rage.

A federal drug agent remained at large Friday as authorities stepped up their search and prosecutors filed a murder charge against him in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend in Fullerton. Tony Gerard Bailey, 35, has not been seen since late Wednesday, when witnesses and police said he shot and killed Veda Harris and wounded her sister, Wendy Campbell, in a jealous rage.

When Roberto Rodriguez was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1989, apparently ending his reign as one of the San Fernando Valley's premier cocaine dealers, a federal judge in Los Angeles gave the Cuban immigrant 30 days to get his affairs in order. That month became nearly a decade.

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent was acquitted Thursday of a child abuse charge by a judge who found "reasonable doubt" surrounding the circumstances of the youngster's brain injury. The agent, Tony Bailey, walked out of the courtroom with the child's mother after Orange County Superior Court Judge Dennis Choate issued the ruling. Bailey had been free on $75,000 bail and on administrative leave while the charge was pending, Deputy Dist. Atty. Michelle Clesceri said.

A government witness who claimed that federal prosecutors in Los Angeles pressured him to falsely implicate suspects in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena has recanted his allegations against the prosecutors, the U.S. attorney's office said in a document filed in federal court Thursday.

A DEA agent was found dead in a car wreck with four shots to the head. His passenger, a fellow agent who told police he had been drinking heavily at a party they attended, was charged with murder. "Who did I kill tonight?" Richard Fekete, 55, asked officers who told him they found DEA agent Shaun Curl, 39, dead in a wrecked car Friday night in Miramar, Fla., according to a police affidavit.

A federal drug agent based in Los Angeles has been charged with felony child abuse after allegedly shaking his infant daughter so violently that the child suffered severe brain damage, prosecutors said Friday. Tony Gerard Bailey, 33, was released Friday from Orange County Jail after posting $75,000 bail. He was arraigned Thursday on charges of child abuse resulting in gross bodily injury, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Michelle Clesceri.