David Regela
A top U.S. customs special agent, David Regela met Pablo Acosta through Mimi Webb Miller. During secret meetings in Mexico, Acosta told the American agent he regretted forming a business connection with Colombian drug traffickers and that he wanted to undermine them and get rid of them by providing information to the American government through Regela.
But the plans to oust the Colombians from Ojinaga evaporated when Acosta made embarrassing revelations to an American journalist of Mexican government complicity in his trafficking activities, forcing the drug lord to flee from pursuing Mexico federal police.