PHILADELPHIA - A 108-count superseding indictment, charges 37 people as participants in a multi-state heroin trafficking organization with ties to Mexico. The charges, which include conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to commit money laundering, 62 counts of money laundering, and 43 substantive drug charges, were announced by United States...

ALBUQUERQUE - Twelve individuals are facing methamphetamine trafficking charges as the result of a DEA-led investigation targeting a methamphetamine trafficking ring operating in Grant County, N.M. The 13-month investigation culminated this morning when all 12 defendants were arrested during an early morning law enforcement operation. The charges were announced by...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari E. Brandenburg, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Twelve individuals are facing drug trafficking and money laundering charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation targeting marijuana traffickers and money launderers operating in southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. The investigation culminated this morning when ten of the defendants were arrested during an early morning...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 37-year-old Chicago resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to participating in a drug conspiracy that was responsible for distributing heroin and other drugs during a four-year time...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that William Nelson, age 42, and Greg Bush, age 53, both of Brooklyn, New York were sentenced in federal court in Scranton on charges of trafficking 100 grams or more of heroin. United States...

MIDLAND, Texas - - In Midland and Odessa this morning, authorities arrested 23 individuals on federal drug and firearms charges announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division, and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson. Federal grand jury...

READING, Penn. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 30-year-old Reading, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 66 months in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton, for participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, and other...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the DEA participated in the New Mexico Pharmacists Association’s Mid-Winter Meeting held this weekend in Albuquerque, N.M., for the purpose of educating the Association’s membership about how prescription drug trafficking and abuse contributes to New Mexico’s heroin and opioid epidemic...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Field Division announced that Miguel Bustamante-Conchas, 39, was sentenced late yesterday afternoon to 20 years in federal prison for his heroin trafficking conviction. He also was ordered to pay...