PERSON: Javier Pena

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (fmr.)

Agent (retired)

Javier Peña is a former DEA agent who investigated Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel with his former colleague Steve Murphy. Peña worked as a consultant on the Netflix series Narcos. Peña was not involved in the DEA’s Cali Cartel activities; his involvement in that investigation in season three of the Netflix series is a fictional account. Following the investigation of the Medellín Cartel, Peña worked for the DEA with additional assignments in Puerto Rico, Texas and Colombia. Peña retired from the DEA in 2014.

Peña was raised in Kingsville, Texas and attended Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) where he studied Sociology and Psychology.

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