McALLEN, TX - A San Juan, Texas, resident convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to possess marijuana and being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of federal law will be spending the next five years and 10 months in federal prison without parole, announced Drug Enforcement...

ATLANTA, GA. - Donald Bristol, 41, of Lilburn, Georgia was sentenced today by United States District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr., to serve over a year in prison on charges that, while he was employed as a DeKalb County police officer, he helped others hide a stolen vehicle, unlawfully accessed...

LAREDO, TX -- - A Webb County Constable Precinct One deputy has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to use his official capacity to protect loads of cocaine, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Eduardo Garcia, aka Eddie Garcia, pleaded guilty late this morning to count one of the...

BEAUMONT, TX - A Houston man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a major drug trafficking conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. Alejandro Ortiz, 33, of Houston...

BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that a Beaumont man was among four sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark to federal prison this week for their roles in a major drug trafficking conspiracy in...

LAREDO, TX - Late this morning, a federal jury returned its verdict finding Artemio Lomas, 45, of Laredo, guilty of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute more than 2000 pounds of marijuana, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel...

HOUSTON, TX -- - Aurelio Cano-Flores, aka “Yankee” and “Yeyo,” a high-ranking member of the Mexican Gulf Cartel, has been extradited to the United States from Mexico to face drug conspiracy charges, announced Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of...

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles and John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division, announced today that Earl Daniels, 31, of Allendale, faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of life in prison as a result of a federal jury’s verdict finding that...

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles and John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division, announced today that Earl Daniels, 31, of Allendale, faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of life in prison as a result of a federal jury’s verdict finding that...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 65-year-old Coldspring, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. Robert Allen Martin pleaded guilty on Mar. 21...