Criminal database breach disrupted DEA investigation

A Maryland woman pleaded guilty to illegally accessing a Drug Enforcement Administration database of open cases and passed information she found there on to her lover and his drug-dealing friend, disrupting a federal investigation.

Tanya Perry was a data entry contract employee for the DEA, court documents said. In that role, she had access to the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System, a national database of open drug investigations. In 2004 and 2005, the 30-year-old Waldorf resident accessed the database and provided details of a DEA investigation into her boyfriend and his friend Jesse Johnson, she admitted Tuesday as part of her guilty plea.