TX: Fake DEA badges seized before headed to Texas

Fake DEA and FBI Badges from China

We warned you about phone scams, crooks using the DEA’s name to con money out of people. Now, a new warning – thieves may be putting down the phone and knocking on your front door instead.

Fake DEA badges seized before headed to Texas (SBG San Antonio)

Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized eight fake DEA badges and one FBI badge at the Chicago International Mail Branch. Just days later, CBP officers found more counterfeit DEA badges, 26 badges all destined for locations across the U.S. including Washington, Iowa, Kentucky, Florida, California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and right here in Texas.

These shipments were all arriving from China and were sent by the same shipper from the week before.

“Unfortunately in our day and age, replication of DEA badges as well as law enforcement badges, in general, are readily available for purchase,” says Richard Sanchez, DEA special agent in charge of the Rio Grande Area.

While it’s hard to know what these badges were intended to be used for, the DEA is grateful that they will not end up in the hands of dangerous criminals.

“So we do the best we can to mitigate that and to ensure and advise the public that that is something to be on the lookout for,” says Sanchez. “Unfortunately, there is the propensity for drug traffickers to portray themselves as police in an attempt to rob, other drug narcotics distributors.”

The DEA says with these fake badges appearing – be on the lookout and keep in mind – it might not be the DEA.

“It’s important to know that when DEA operates on a, on a mission, or an element of arrest that we ensure that we’re properly identifying ourselves. That we have marked police units at our side, so there is no question that we are the legitimate police,” says Sanchez.

In your neighborhoods, on the streets, Fox San Antonio and the DEA will keep you informed and safe.

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