Special Agent in Charge
United States Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
El Paso Field Division
Mr. Gonzalez is a native of Cuba who began his law enforcement career in
August 1972 as a Deputy Sheriff for the County of Los Angeles, California. In
1973 he joined the Huntington Park Police Department where he worked as a
patrolman while attending California State University in Los Angeles. He
graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice in 1976, and in 1978 he joined the
DEA as a Special Agent in the Los Angeles Field Division.
In 1983 Mr. Gonzalez was transferred to San Jose, Costa Rica where he served
as Assistant Country Attaché. In 1987 he was promoted to Group Supervisor in
Mexico City, and in 1989 he was assigned to the Inspection Division at DEA
Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as a Unit Chief in the Office
of Security Programs and later as an Inspector in the Office of Professional
Responsibility. In 1992 he was promoted as the DEA Advisor to the Commander
in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama where he served until 1994.
Mr. Gonzalez returned to Washington as Chief of the Drug Suppression Section
in the Office of Cocaine Investigations, and in 1995 took over as Chief of the
South America Section in the Office of International Operations, where he was in
charge of DEA operations in South America. In January 1998 he reported to the
Miami Field Division as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge, and later that year
he was promoted to the Senior Executive Service of the United States as
Associate Special Agent in Charge.
Mr. Gonzalez has received several performance awards while assigned to
foreign and domestic DEA offices. He has participated in numerous undercover
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