In popular culture The DEA are commonly featured in crime drama films and TV, as both protagonists and antagonists. Hank Schrader is one of the main protagonists in AMC's Breaking Bad. He is both a DEA agent (later promoted to ASAC) and brother-in-law to drug kingpin Walter White, unknowingly investigating Walt's alter-ego Heisenberg for the duration of the show. Javier Peña and Stephen Murphy are two of the main protagonists in Netflix's Narcos. They are responsible for the capture and killing of the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar on December 2, 1993, of which the show was based on. Norman Stansfield leads a team of corrupt DEA agents, who along with the NYPD, hunt an assassin in the 1994 movie Léon: The Professional. In the film Sabotage, a group of special agents with the DEA's Special Operations Team, are hunted down after stealing a large amount of cartel cash during a raid.
In popular culture The DEA are commonly featured in crime drama films and TV, as both protagonists and antagonists. Hank Schrader is one of the main protagonists in AMC's Breaking Bad. He is both a DEA agent (later promoted to ASAC) and brother-in-law to drug kingpin Walter White unknowingly investigating Walt's alter-ego Heisenberg for the duration of the show. Javier Peña and Stephen Murphy are two of the main protagonists in Netflix's Narcos. They are res,ponsible for the capture and killing of the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar on December 2, 1993, of which the show was based on. Norman Stansfield leads a team of corrupt DEA agents, who along with the NYPD, hunt an assassin in the 1994 movie Léon: The Professional. In the film Sabotage, a group of special agents with the DEA's Special Operations Team, are hunted down after stealing a large amount of cartel cash during a raid.