OMAHA, Neb., –Dustin R. Gillespie was named special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Field Division.
He begins work today overseeing the agency’s 11 offices across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Appointed by DEA Administrator Terrance C. Cole, Gillespie is the fifth person to hold the title of Special Agent in charge of the DEA Omaha Field Division since its formation in 2018.
Special Agent in Charge Gillespie will guide the DEA Omaha Field Division’s efforts in disrupting and dismantling major transnational criminal organizations, to include cartels recently deemed foreign terrorist organizations. He inherits a field division in which DEA agents have seized more than 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine in the first eight months of the year and removed close to four million lethal doses of fentanyl in both pill and powder form…