McALLEN, TX - Two former deputy sheriffs from Duval County, Texas, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Ruben Silva, 35, of Freer, Texas...

HOUSTON, TX - Joselito Flores Mercado, 49, and Jose Alberto DeLeon, 34, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in connection with a seizure of more than 1,900 pounds of marijuana in the Houston area, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney...

Riverside, CA - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that operators of an Inland Empire chain of marijuana stores and others associated with a warehouse where drugs were cultivated for the stores were arrested this morning on federal drug trafficking charges. A six-count indictment returned last week by a federal...

McALLEN, TX - A 38-year-old known sex offender from Alton, Texas, convicted of drug trafficking, has been sentenced to federal prison, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Randy Judge Crane sentenced Edward Gene...

LAREDO, TX - Leandro Salas-Galaviz aka Daniel Obregon, 35, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role as a leader/organizer in a drug and money laundering conspiracy engaged in trafficking kilograms of cocaine and marijuana for the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in...

LAREDO, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today that Andrew Ayran Alves and Shomari E. Fussell, both 30, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine with the intention of distributing it...

LAREDO, TX - The leader of a drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of the Zapata, Texas, area from approximately June 2006 through June 2011 has pleaded guilty, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Pedro Navarro...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...

SAN ANTONIO, TX - Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 69, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, has been sentenced to 222 months in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for conspiracy to commit (RICO), Kenneth Magidson and Robert L. Pittman, United States Attorneys for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, respectively...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Federal and local authorities arrested 14 defendants named in a federal indictment that alleges widespread drug trafficking activities by a Whittier-based organization and its Mexico-based suppliers of cocaine and methamphetamine on December 8. An additional five defendants named in the indictment are already in custody. Those...