New York 

​Times documents 

Surging Heroin Trade

​...........deadly drug creates addicts  nationwide & portends Mexican drug violence for Main Street USA 

Hanging bodies in Nuevo Laredo Mexico

Courtesy Conservative Times

Mexican Cartels exerting greater and greater control over U.S. Heroin smuggling & distribution 

Members of Mexican drug gang

Vertical integration takes Mexican criminal organizations into controlling heroin production and trafficking from the field to the street

                   

.................U.S. teenagers

​ targeted for cheap black tar heroin​

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​ Steve Peterson-Heroin & Mexican Cartel Expert ​

Philip Hoffman death tied to heroin

The heroin induced overdose death of famed actor Philip Seymour Hoffman brings international attention to a lethal opiate making a fierce comeback in the U.S. and Mexico is leading the way with increasing control over access to white, brown and black tar varieties. As reported in Forbes, Mexico has an estimated cultivation of 10,500 hectares of opium poppies which has a potential to yield 26 metric tons. The amount of heroin seized each year at the Mexican border has increased nearly four-fold, from 1,232 pounds (558.8 kilograms) in 2008 to 4,610 pounds (2091 kilograms) in 2012.

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DEA spokesman Rusty Payne commented: “Most heroin overall is trafficked by Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations,”. Moreover the Mexicans have gotten serious about satisfying the demand for all types of the opiate. According to McClatchy Newspapers a U.S. government official based in Mexico City commented that the Mexicans “brought in experts, chemists, folks from Asia who taught them how to produce better heroin. You saw purity levels climb from 40% to 50% up to 90%.” Heroin is starting to be seen as a problem throughout the United States. The heroin problem traditionally has been associated with large urban areas but this is changing as heroin reaches into smaller American cities.  Burlington, Vermont Police Chief Michael Schirling said it is no longer unusual to find 10,000 bags per 

heroin seizure. USA Today reporting on a recent drug summit quoted FBI Director James Comey  as stating: "Every place I've visited, I've heard about heroin,''

  

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Heroin ​& Mexican Drug Cartel Expert

Steve Peterson

Vice President of the National Law Enforcement Speakers Bureau

Steven R. Peterson at the time of his retirement was the most experienced DEA Street Agent in the United States and had been a Special Agent (SA) of the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for nearly three decades. Peterson was the initial undercover agent in the interdiction of a nearly 4 ton shipment of cocaine in Miami-the biggest confiscation at that time in US history. Steve is currently Vice President of the National Law Enforcement Speakers Bureau, LLC, a network of retired DEA Special Agents and other topic specific experts, providing the highest quality of training to nearly 85,000 professionals in the law enforcement community.  During his DEA career, besides being stationed in Boston, New York and Atlanta, Peterson worked the Charlotte NC district which is the de facto Mexican black tar heroin capital of the Eastern United States, involving the participation of the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels and the deadly MS-13 gangs made up of Mexican and Central American immigrants. Peterson spent the last year of his career working Mexican heroin traffickers exclusively and interviewed dozens of heroin addicts, recruiting them as informants for DEA.  

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DEA SA Ray Stastny

One of Peterson's most important assignments was as Lead Investigator, or Case Agent, in the investigation of the murder of DEA SA Ray Stastny gunned down by a Mexican drug dealer.  For over ten years he had been the DEA Atlanta Field Division Training Coordinator (DTC), responsible for coordinating and conducting training to all DEA employees within the DEA Division, as well as Task Force Officers, State & Local Police Officers and civilians within Georgia, Tennessee and North & South Carolina.  As a DEA DTC, SA Peterson has taught thousands of law enforcement officers, social workers, civilians and parents.  In addition to training, as a street agent working undercover for over 17 years, SA Peterson received numerous awards and commendations, including two Administrator’s Awards for Group Achievement, fifteen Exceptional Performance Awards for performing duties above expectations during career with DEA, as well as over eighty-five awards from state and local law enforcement officers/agencies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Drug Enforcement Officers Association in 2010.  

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