During his 11 years with DEA he received two Sustained Superior Performance Awards, a Special Achievement Award, and, posthumously, the Administrator's Award of Honor, the highest award granted by DEA. He was assigned to the Fresno, California District Office in September 1977 and transferred to the Guadalajara, Mexico Resident Office in July 1981. Special Agent Camarena joined DEA in June 1974 as a special agent with the Calexico, California District Office. He was 37 years of age at the time of his death. His body was discovered on March 5, 1985. It is believed that Special Agent Camarena's death occurred on February 9. Camarena, of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Guadalajara, Mexico, Resident Office, was kidnapped and tortured by Mexican drug traffickers on February 7, 1985.
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