In choosing Sheriff Chad Chronister of Hillsborough County, Fla., to run the Drug Enforcement Administration, President-elect Donald J. Trump opted for someone with a substantial record in local law enforcement but virtually no experience with the complex international investigations for which the agency is known. Sheriff Chronister, 56, has worked in the sheriff's office for more than 30 years, rising from patrol deputy to narcotics detective.
Some longtime D.E.A. agents and officials started trading messages that simply read, Who? Mr. Trump's D.E.A. selection was never going to be as well known, or as contentious, as his pick to run the F.B.I. Unlike Kash Patel, it does not appear that Sheriff Chronister was chosen to wreak vengeance on the president-elect's enemies inside the D.E.A.
Sheriff Chronister will likely face an array of challenges should he be confirmed as the agency's administrator, starting with the fact that the D.E.A.'s budget is nearly five times as large and has almost three times as many employees as the department he now runs.
Some D.E.A. veterans spent Saturday and Sunday looking up Sheriff Chronister and quietly wondering whether he was up for the tasks of confronting Mexico's drug cartels and curbing China's production of fentanyl.
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