The Nation - News from April 10, 1989

A senior agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration and a former South Florida police officer have been arrested on cocaine conspiracy charges, federal law enforcement officials said. A number of other suspects were also expected to be charged and arrested in the case, and the two men already in custody were to be arraigned today before a U.S. magistrate in Miami, according to the officials. No details on the drug charges were released. The DEA agent was identified in Miami television news reports as Jorge Villar, a 14-year veteran who heads a team on a South Florida drug task force. The reports said that the former Metro-Dade County police officer charged in the case was Alex Marrero, who was one of a group of officers acquitted in May, 1980, in the beating death of a black insurance executive, Arthur McDuffie.