Criminology and Psychology

"It was an enterprise concealed in suburbia," said DEA Agent Douglas S. Collier, spokesman for the agency's Newark office that worked the Esteves case. "They had so much money they didn't know what to do with it."While several neighbors, who would only speak anonymously, said last week that they wondered about the Esteveses' ostentatious lifestyle, narcotics investigators say it fits a pattern.Drug kingpins, they say, move to the suburbs for the same reasons as anyone else - for comfort and security. And, like other goal-oriented entrepreneurs, many flaunt their success. "It's about the money and living the lavish lifestyle," said FBI Agent John M. Cosenza, who supervises a drug task force out of Philadelphia. "We're seeing more and more moves out to the suburbs." They move to an affluent community because they want a nice home and better schools for their children," said Jeremiah A. Daley, executive director of the Phila...