BEAUMONT, Texas –A Groves man has been sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison for trafficking drugs in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Jonathan C. Pullen of the Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs Darrus Dugas, 42, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Pasqual Perez Duckett, 41, of Newberry, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl which resulted in the death of a 28-year-old Columbia woman. In July 2023, agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with the City of Columbia Police Department...

RALEIGH, N.C. – A federal judge sentenced a Nash County man to 20 years in federal prison for selling more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. On February 14, 2024, Kenneth Orlin Simmons, Jr., age 36, pleaded guilty to these crimes. “Drug dealers flood our communities with deadly methamphetamine and arm...

ALBUQUERQUE – A Hobbs man was sentenced to 26 years in prison for drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession as a convicted felon. There is no parole in the federal system. According to court documents, on October 19, 2023, agents with the Lea County Drug Task Force stopped a SUV...

EL PASO - A former FBI “Ten Most Wanted Fugitive” and leader of the El Paso/Juarez-based Bario Azteca gang pleaded guilty today in federal court in El Paso, Texas, for his role in the March 2010 U.S. Consulate murders in Juarez, Mexico, in which three people associated with the U.S...

ALBUQUERQUE - David Mendoza-Enriquez was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking organization responsible for moving tens of thousands of fentanyl pills from Mexico into Albuquerque, along with alien smuggling and importing illegal wildlife. According to court records, from at least 2020 through January 2023...

(COLUMBIA, SC) South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today that the South Carolina State Grand Jury has issued indictments in the drug trafficking investigation known as “Ganjapreneur.” To date, State Grand Jury indictments unsealed yesterday brought 40 narcotics charges against 12 defendants in Richland and Lexington counties. The focus...

HOUSTON – A 45-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute bulk crystal methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Jonathan C. Pullen of the Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. Devon Shermaine Rhodes pleaded guilty Sept...

SAN ANTONIO – A Mexican national was sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio to 155 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine. According to court documents, Cesar Sepulveda Esquivel aka Cesar Sepulveda Jimenez, 47, of Piedras Negras, was identified as a supplier for methamphetamine and cocaine in December 2022...

BEAUMONT, Texas –A Port Arthur man has been sentenced to over 10 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge of the Houston Division Jonathan C. Pullen and U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs. Cory Donelle Williams...