Brian Shanahan is a retired supervisory special agent with the DEA who worked on a wide range of cases and was responsible for many national and international investigative accomplishments. During his tenure with the DEA, Brian Shanahan was chosen for an overseas position in the DEA’s Ankara, Turkey office where he established and maintained alliances with Turkish authorities in narcotics enforcement efforts. In the US, the DEA has been struggling to curtail the use and distribution of methamphetamine since its inception in 1980.During what was considered the peak of methamphetamine use in the US, Agency personnel were seizing drug caches mainly in the one-to-five pound range. That was in 2005, and the meth problem was considered an imminent crisis.
In 2019, far from having slowed, the problem is well beyond what anyone could have predicted. Agents recently seized 250 pounds of meth in a single raid in Minnesota, as a meth resurgence is becoming more lethal by the day. Most indications are that the drugs are sourced from Mexico these days, rather than made in the US. While domestic production has been significantly reduced to the point of being rare, foreign drugs are keeping the illicit economy alive and they show no signs of slowing down.
