ALBUQUERQUE - Angel Ramirez, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, faces federal drug trafficking and firearm offenses following her arrest during a DEA-led Homeland Security Task Force investigation. "During this operation, DEA agents working alongside our Homeland Security Task Force partners seized more than 40 kilograms of fentanyl powder, representing over 3...

ALBUQUERQUE – An Albuquerque drug trafficker who amassed an arsenal of firearms, including machinegun conversion devices, and hundreds of grams of methamphetamine and fentanyl has been sentenced to nearly 29 years in federal prison. According to court documents, on July 6, 2024, Deundalas Gales, 37, was driving at a high...

RENO – A northern Nevada man was sentenced today by United States District Judge Miranda M. Du to 188 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. The government recommended life in prison. “This defendant chose to flood our communities with pure poison for...

LOS ANGELES – A Simi Valley man has been sentenced to 196 months in federal prison for knowingly possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl, the use of which resulted in the fatal overdose of a victim, the Drug Enforcement Administration Los Angeles Field Division announced. Michael McDevitt, 44, of...

Hagåtña, Guam – SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Michael Joseph Salas, age 42, from Barrigada, Guam was sentenced in the U.S. District Court of Guam to 120 months imprisonment for Distribution of 50 or More Grams...

LAS VEGAS — Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) Core 8 launched Operation Loaded Dice in July 2026. This was a strategic investigative initiative focused on disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal organizations, gangs and other criminal networks involved in illicit firearms and narcotics trafficking, as well as bulk cash smuggling, and...

EL PASO, Texas – A federal jury convicted an El Paso man for three counts related to fentanyl trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Charles Arellano, 45, was a fentanyl dealer who came under...

LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement today arrested 23 defendants out of a total of 28 individuals, including residents of West Covina and Studio City, charged in federal criminal complaints with trafficking drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, in and around the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, an area notorious...

LOS ANGELES – A Palmdale man was sentenced today to 192 months in federal prison for knowingly possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl, the use of which resulted in the fatal overdose of two victims, the Drug Enforcement Administration Los Angeles Field Division announced. Christopher Morales, 24, was sentenced...

LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man who admitted to selling methamphetamine and heroin was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 40 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. The government recommended a sentence of 60 months in prison. “Our office...