DEA AGENT FACED SECOND DIVORCE

MIAMI (AP) A DEA agent charged with shooting a colleague after getting
drunk at a Christmas party recently filed for his second divorce and was
bedeviled by a drinking problem, a newspaper reported.

The Miami Herald, citing sources in a story Sunday, said Richard Fekete's
problems away from his highstress job may have been too much to handle.
The 33year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly awoke
from a drunken stupor only to be told he shot a fellow agent Friday night.

Shaun Curl, 39, was found dead with at least four gunshot wounds to the
head and upper torso when state troopers came across his Jeep Cherokee off
of U.S. Hwy 27 in Miramar. Fekete, the passenger, had crawled out of the
crash.

Investigators speculate that an intoxicated Fekete, 55, may have been
disoriented and angry at being forcibly removed from the Christmas party at
the MiamiDade County Police Benevolent Association and not allowed to
drive, sources told the Herald.

Fekete ``appeared to be intoxicated and was very combative and
uncooperative,'' and still held his recently fired gun, Miramar detective
Tim Nevins wrote in his report. Only five bullets remained from a magazine
of 12.

The agent was being held without bond on firstdegree murder charges and
has been put on administrative leave. According to an arrest affidavit,
Fekete told officers he was at the police hall and had been drinking a lot.

Fekete could not remember leaving the hall or what happened prior to the
crash. ``Who did I kill tonight?'' Fekete asked investigators, according to
the police affidavit.

Curl was driving Fekete home to Pembroke Pines before heading to his own
house in Coral Springs. His wife, Kathleen, said her husband was a
``hopeless romantic'' who hated drugs and loved his two children.

``He believed so deeply in what he was doing that he was there because
society needs good guys to care for the rest of the good guys,'' she said.