LAREDO, Texas - Amy Reyes, a deputy sheriff with the Starr County Sheriff’s Office, has been charged along with her brother Bobby Lee Reyes alleging they conspired to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...

McALLEN, Texas - Donald Armin Alaniz, of McAllen, has been sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for possessing with intent to distribute approximately 1,780 kilograms of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alaniz, 48, pleaded guilty Feb. 28...

HOUSTON - Three Aryan Brotherhood of (ABT) gang members and associates were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the violent ABT enterprise, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of...

HOUSTON - A member of a drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of Mexico from 2002-2008 has been convicted, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Richard Garcia-Sanchez, 40, of Mexico City, Mexico, pleaded guilty today for...

LAREDO, Texas - Nine more members of a cocaine, crack and marijuana distribution group have entered guilty pleas to federal conspiracy charges, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. On July 8, 2014, a federal grand jury returned an...

LAREDO, Texas - The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation known as Operation El Chacal has been selected as the recipient of the National OCDETF Award for Outstanding Investigation in the Southwest Region, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been arraigned on federal drugs and weapons charges in relation to the shooting of a DEA agent while a search warrant was being executed at his home on October 20, 2014. John S. Comer, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two Pharr men have been arrested in a marijuana trafficking and money laundering conspiracy following an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. John Robledo aka John Robledo...

COLUMBUS, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced the sentencing of Travis Hill, age 35, of Columbus, Georgia, on November 24, 2014, by the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, in Columbus, Georgia...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Nashville last week, returned indictments charging 10 people with conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Armed with arrest warrants and search warrants, local, state and federal law enforcement...