APR 21 - ( SAN DIEGO) - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) would like to announce that the 8th National Prescription Take Back Day will be held on April 26, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. DEA and its law enforcement and community partners will give the public another opportunity...

McALLEN, Texas - Ivan Velasquez-Caballero, aka "Talivan" or "50," has entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Velasquez-Caballero, 44, of...

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...

SAN DIEGO - Over the course of the last four days, members of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, in collaboration with their enforcement counterparts in Mexico, have uncovered two sophisticated smuggling tunnels connecting commercial buildings in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial park with warehouses in neighboring Tijuana, Mex. The...

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...

SAN DIEGO - Four baggage handlers at San Diego International Airport were indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on charges that they conspired to smuggle cocaine and methamphetamine onto aircraft by exploiting their ability to pass unchecked through security screening areas. It’s believed to be the first federal drug...

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...

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...

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...

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...