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DATE: Tuesday, September 24, 1996 TAG: 9609240079
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: ARLINGTON
SOURCE: Associated Press
Activist Dick Gregory and two others were arrested Monday in a protest at the Drug Enforcement Administration after demanding release of information on when the agency first learned of allegations that U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels were shipping cocaine to the United States.
Gregory, civil rights activist Joseph Lowery and talk show host Joseph Madison were arrested by officers outside the DEA's main office. They were charged with impeding public traffic.
They were joined at the protest by former DEA agent Celerino Castillo III, who said he filed reports documenting how in the mid-1980s, the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras were raising money by funneling crack cocaine to inner-city gangs in Los Angeles.
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