CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Several individuals have been taken into custody following the return of two separate, but related federal indictments alleging various drug trafficking and money laundering charges, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The first sealed indictment, returned...

LAREDO, Texas - Rigoberto Torres, 39, a legal permanent resident from New Jersey, has been ordered to federal prison as a result of his conviction of possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney...

LOS ANGELES - The Las Vegas Sands Corp., which operates the Venetian-Palazzo hotel complex in Las Vegas, has agreed to return $47,400,300 to conclude an investigation into the casino’s failure to alert authorities that a high-stakes gambler, who was later linked to international drug trafficking, made numerous large and suspicious...

LOS ANGELES - Thirty alleged members of two drug trafficking organizations that operated across Southern California have been indicted on federal narcotics charges following an investigation into the importation of cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States. The indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury on...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Luis Perez-Barocela, 38, has been ordered to prison for more than 24 years for his participation in a large drug trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. A federal jury in Corpus Christi found...

LAREDO, Texas - Several members of a large scale drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received significant federal prison sentences, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña announced today. The...

LOS ANGELES - A federal drug task force today arrested 18 people linked to three drug trafficking organizations that smuggled narcotics from Mexico in PVC pipes typically hidden in the axles of commercial trucks that ended up at truck yards located in South Los Angeles and southern Los Angeles County...

LOS ANGELES - A West Hollywood doctor pleaded guilty this afternoon to a federal drug trafficking charge for writing hundreds of prescriptions for various controlled substances after a federal order revoked his authority to prescribe drugs. James William Eisenberg, 72, who resides in the Venice district of Los Angeles, pleaded...

LOS ANGELES - A coalition of federal, state and local authorities this morning arrested eight defendants named in a federal grand jury indictment that outlines an alliance between the Mexican Mafia prison gang and the La Familia Michoacána drug cartel that sought to protect and expand the cartel’s drug trafficking...

McALLEN, Texas - --Alexis Espinoza, 30, has entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth...