ALBUQUERQUE - Destiny Stephenson, 35, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges. Stephenson is one of 41 individuals charged in Sept. 2015, with drug trafficking offenses as a result of an eight-month multi-agency investigation by the FBI, the DEA, Chaves...

EL PASO - This morning, federal, state and local authorities arrested a Sureños gang member and an associate charged in connection with methamphetamine trafficking in El Paso announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., 34th Judicial District Attorney Jaime Esparza...

ALBUQUERQUE - Ten individuals are facing heroin trafficking charges as the result of a DEA-led investigation targeting a heroin trafficking ring operating out of Sunland Park, N.M. The eight-month investigation concluded this morning after nine of the 10 defendants had been arrested. Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of...

McALLEN, Texas - A jury has found a former Drug Enforcement (DEA) task force officer/Mission Police Department investigator guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...

HOUSTON - A two-count federal indictment has been returned charging two Houston residents and one Mexican National in a cocaine conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Houston Division U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The indictment against Shuntel Coco, 44, and Christopher Williams...

HOUSTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human (DHHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301 individuals, including 61 doctors, nurses and other...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 15 individuals charged in connection with a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Western District of Texas; United...

DEL RIO, Texas - In Del Rio today Felipe Carmona-Rodriguez, 51, of Eagle Pass, Texas was sentenced on federal narcotics trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph Arabit, Houston Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division...

McALLEN, Texas - Two local men have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Guadalupe Trevino Jr., 43, and Guadalupe Trevino...

HOUSTON - A grand jury sitting in Houston has returned an 11-count indictment against several individuals, to include current or former law enforcement officers, in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. U.S...