LAREDO, Texas - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today Jose Gomez-Ramirez, 32, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been ordered to prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Gomez-Ramirez pleaded...

LAREDO, Texas - Three separate indictments have been partially unsealed following the arrest of six Laredo residents on a variety of charges including methamphetamine and/or cocaine trafficking and felon in possession of a firearm, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and United States Attorney...

LAREDO, Texas - Edgar Loera and Miguel Angel Vives-Macias have been convicted by a federal jury of multiple counts in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving heroin and methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts...

HONOLULU - Jacob Drummondo-Farias, age 31, of Waialua, Hawaii, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 324 months imprisonment for being a manager and supervisor of a conspiracy to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine between 2011 and...

CHRISTI, Texas - Jose Fidel Guajardo aka "Garfield," 42, a leader of a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, has been handed a significant federal sentence, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Today, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A Temecula man, who owned and operated sports nutrition businesses in Murrieta and Temecula, was sentenced February 18, 2014, to probation after he pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges for possessing and distributing anabolic steroids. David Antonio Calderon, 40, who owned and operated Nutri-Sport in Murrieta...

BEAUMONT, Texas - A 25-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Michael Joseph Barrett IV pleaded guilty to possession with...

LOS ANGELES - Federal, state and local authorities this morning arrested 20 individuals who are named in two federal indictments that target manufacturers and distributors of Phencyclidine - commonly known as PCP or “angel dust” - a dangerous narcotic with deep ties to the violent Grape Street Crips and other...

RENO, Nev. - - In the first federal jury trial of its kind in Nevada involving synthetic drugs commonly referred to as "spice," a Reno, Nevada man has been convicted of multiple counts related to the distribution and possession of the dangerous substances, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - - Stephen Whipple, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced Jesus Mauricio Juarez Jr. aka Flaco 27, has been sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in a 1,000 pound marijuana load. He...