Paul Teresi/photo palm beach sheriff's dept.

DEA agent Paul A. Teresi’s father was once the special agent in charge of the DEA’s Ft. Lauderdale office.

By Juan Ortega
South Florida Sun Sentinel
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — He followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

At home, he recently became a father himself, to a daughter now 7 months old.

During a viewing service in Boca Raton on Wednesday, dozens mourned DEA Special Agent Paul Andrew Teresi, 44, who lived near Boca Raton in unincorporated Palm Beach County. He died Sunday in an Interstate 95 crash in Deerfield Beach.

A Mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Joan of Arc Church, 370 SW Third St., Boca Raton.

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