CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two more members of a massive heroin and money laundering conspiracy have been ordered to federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Louie Molina, 36, and Jesus Leal Jr., 34, both of Robstown...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 25-year-old Corpus Christi resident and member of the Texas Mexican Mafia has been sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking of a child as well as firearms and drug trafficking charges, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division...

NORTH TEXAS & OKLAHOMA - The final total is in from the 15th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 28, 2018. DEA and its partners, 142 participating agencies in total, took back prescription drugs at 179 locations throughout North Texas and Oklahoma. A total of 39,217 pounds of...

HOUSTON - From Waco to Houston to Laredo, Texas, Texan’s showed their support for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day program by dropping off their unused, unwanted and expired prescription pills on April 28 at collection sites across Texas. The Houston Division collected over 44,262...

Oklahoma City, OK - Christopher Thomas Caplinger, 55, of Edmond, Oklahoma and three others have been charged with conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA, and Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. On March 20, 2018...

DALLAS - Fifty-seven individuals, who are connected to various white supremacist gangs have been charged in a case led by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division and coordinated by the Texas Anti-Gang Center with participating partners such as the Dallas Police Department Criminal Intelligence Unit and the...

McALLEN, Texas - The first defendant involved in a rip crew responsible for multiple home invasions and carjackings to steal narcotics in Hidalgo County has been ordered to federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jorge Antonio...

McALLEN, Texas - Two illegal aliens residing in Pharr have been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to interfere with commerce by threats or violence and to carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 51-year-old Corpus Christi physician has admitted he furnished false information in a record of dispensed controlled substances, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Dr. Michael Jerome Pendleton pleaded guilty today. At the hearing...

AMARILLO, Texas - This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Noel Cuellar, 37, of Amarillo, Texas, for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Amarillo area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin...