New records show drug cartel ties, DEA agent’s actions leading to fatal crash
DEA agent Samuel Landis was in a hurry.
On a rainy spring day in Salem, he’d fallen behind a team of other agents following a drug courier. They had the driver in sight.
Landis sped along a central Salem road, approaching a busy cross street. He braked the government-owned Dodge Ram pickup truck as he approached. A retaining wall and brush obscured his vision.
Despite that, Landis rolled the pickup through the intersection at nearly…
