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Anthony C. Marotta began his career with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in February 1985 as a Special Agent in the Long Island, New York District Office. In September 1985, he was assigned to the Miami Field Division in the Clandestine Laboratory Group. In addition to being a highly successful undercover operative, Mr. Marotta ran an ad-hoc "store-front" operation that provided precursor chemicals to clandestine drug manufacturers nationwide. This operation dismantled scores of criminal organizations around the country. It resulted in the arrests of over 100 violators, and the seizure and forfeiture of tens of millions of dollars in assets.

In June 1991, Mr. Marotta was assigned to Quantico, Virginia as an Agent Instructor in the DEA Office of Training, Asset Forfeiture Sub-Unit. Mr. Marotta developed a one-week training course in Asset Forfeiture for criminal drug investigators and was responsible for all in-service Asset Forfeiture training for DEA. During this tenure at Quantico, Mr. Marotta trained over 3000 State and Locals and DEA Agents in the theory and practical application of Asset Forfeiture. In addition, many foreign countries sent their premier investigators to be trained in Asset Forfeiture as attendees of his course.

In June 1996, Mr. Marotta was promoted to a Supervisory Special Agent as the Enforcement Group Supervisor in the St. Louis Field Division. For each year during his tenure, his group led the St. Louis Division in the number of federal arrests affected and assets seized. This successful group, recognized in 1999 with the "Administrators Group Award," was responsible for general enforcement and the interdiction of clandestine laboratories. Mr. Marotta created an ad-hoc task force, the West County MEG Unit, to investigate clandestine laboratories. He was also responsible for clandestine safety training for state and local officials in eastern Missouri. The success of the clandestine laboratory program that Mr. Marotta led captured the interest of then Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri. Mr. Marotta briefed the Senator on the problems of clandestine methamphetamine manufacture. Shortly after, Senator Ashcroft introduced federal legislation that increased the penalties for the possession and manufacture of methamphetamines. This legislation was passed and put into law in 1999.

Mr. Marotta was transferred to DEA Headquarters in July 2000, as Unit Chief of the Operations Budget Section (OMBB). As Unit Chief of OMBB, he was responsible for all budgetary matters involving OC and domestic field offices.

In April 2002, Mr. Marotta was promoted to Section Chief of the Operations Budget Section (OMB). As Section Chief of OMB, he was responsible for the planning, formulation and execution of $200 million dollar Operations Division Budget. He served as a contact and spokesperson, and participated in all budget hearings involving the Operations Division. In addition to managing the activities of OMBB, Mr. Marotta was responsible for overseeing the Planning and Strategy Unit (OMPS). One of his most important contributions during his tenure in Headquarters was developing the "Resource Allocation Plan." Working with then Administrator Hutchinson and other senior management, Mr. Marotta developed the Administrator's vision of how DEA would redistribute its manpower assets post 9/11. He put it into a viable package that identified the new drug threats facing the United States with the FBI pull out of drug investigations. His plan included shifting various vacancies with the cooperation and approval of field SACs and the concurrence of the Chief of Operations and the Domestic Chief of Operations. Mr. Marotta's plan was accepted by the Administrator and Executive Staff and was presented to Congress, which agreed with the assessment of how DEA should proceed with redistribution of manpower. The validation of Mr. Marotta's plan resulted in DEA receiving new positions for 2003, 2004, and 2005.

In April 2003, Mr. Marotta was transferred to the DEA Detroit Field Division Columbus Office as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge. Here, he has oversight responsibility for five resident offices in the State of Ohio.

Mr. Marotta holds a BA and an MBA from New York's Adelphi University. He is the recipient of many awards due to his attention to duty, including the DEA Administrators Award. Mr. Marotta is married and has three children.

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ASAC James V. Allen

Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Jim Allen spent approximately 10 years as a local police officer in Clayton, Missouri before becoming a DEA Special Agent (SA) in 1991. After graduation from the DEA Academy, SA Allen was assigned to the Milwaukee Resident Office (RO) where he specialized in undercover work as well as multi-jurisdictional wire tap investigations.

In 1994, SA Allen was transferred to the Bombay, India RO where he developed an expertise working international narcotics investigations, predominantly involving precursor chemicals. SA Allen conducted several successful international precursor chemical investigations that had a direct nexus to illicit U.S. drug markets. In 1996, SA Allen was transferred to the New Delhi Country Office where he continued to investigate large scale illicit precursor chemical organizations as well as international heroin and hashish trafficking groups. In cooperation with international counterparts, SA Allen worked a variety of undercover assignments targeting both Afghani and Pakistani heroin trafficking organizations operating throughout the sub-continent.

In 1998 SA Allen was transferred to the Special Operations Division (SOD) in Newington, Virginia. While at SOD, SA Allen worked in the Special Projects Section targeting the most prolific cocaine and heroin trafficking organizations operating in South and Central America. In 1999, SA Allen was promoted to a GS-14 and was subsequently transferred to DEA HQS where he was assigned to the Office of Diversion Control (OD), International Chemical Section. While working in OD, SA Allen coordinated several international precursor chemical cases, particularly investigations involving Acetic Anhydride (a precursor for heroin) and ephedrine (a precursor for methamphetamine). In 2000, SA Allen was transferred to the DEA HQ Office of Domestic Operations where he served as a Staff Coordinator in the then newly formed Dangerous Drugs and Chemicals Section.

SA Allen was transferred to the Istanbul, Turkey RO in 2002 where he served as Resident Agent in Charge (RAC). As the RAC of the Istanbul RO, SA Allen maintained an outstanding working relationship with Turkish counterparts while directing office operations to target the most significant heroin trafficking organizations operating throughout the region. In 2004 SA Allen was promoted to Assistant Regional Director (ARD) of the Ankara Region and was transferred from Istanbul to the Ankara, Turkey Regional Office. During this time, SA Allen was instrumental assisting the Regional Director in formulating the administrative functions of the newly formed Ankara Regional Office. SA Allen was also responsible for the day to day second line managerial oversight of four DEA Country Offices within the Ankara Region.

In 2006, SA Allen was named as the Regional Director of the Ankara Region.

In this position, SA Allen had Executive managerial oversight of thirteen foreign DEA Country and Resident Offices which cover a total of forty three countries, spanning from Eastern Europe throughout Southwest Asia. Under SA Allen’s supervision, DEA mission critical programs, such as the Foreign Deployed Advisory and Support Team (FAST) in Afghanistan, continued to develop and proactively target major international terrorist and narcotics trafficking organizations.

In August of 2007, SA Allen was transferred from the Ankara Regional Office to the Detroit Divisional Office where he currently serves as an ASAC. SA Allen is married and has two college age daughters and a high school age son.