David Olesky, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain special agent in charge, is trying to put faces to the region’s drug crisis. In a first-person column published today, Feb. 22, he centers victims as the driving force behind the DEA’s work, recounting meetings with people whose lives have been upended by trafficking, including a grandmother at the Cedar Run Apartments who described thefts, threats, and multiple overdoses in her building. Olesky casts those encounters as the reason agents keep chasing traffickers, saying those stories are what get them out the door every morning.
DEA Chief’s Column Puts Victims Front And Center
In an op ed for the Denver Gazette, Olesky writes that his career has been shaped by meetings with “victims…..