Warren Reese; U.S. Prosecutor Helped Lead Camarena Case Probe

Warren Reese, 65, a retired federal prosecutor who helped direct the investigation into the murder of Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique Camarena. A native of East Los Angeles, Reese became a federal prosecutor in 1969. He was one of the two U.S. prosecutors who tried Daniel Ellsberg over his release of the Pentagon Papers concerning the Vietnam War. The trial judge dismissed that case after Ellsberg’s psychologist’s office was burglarized by Watergate intruders. By 1985, Reese had risen to senior prosecutor, where he later directed aspects of the U.S. investigation into the kidnaping, torture and murder of Camarena. Reese retired from the U.S. attorney’s office in 1990. On April 29 in Del Mar, in a traffic accident.