FRESNO, Calif. - Jesus Manuel Peraza Ruiz, 56, of Bakersfield, Calif. was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to nine years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John...

McALLEN, Texas - Two U.S. citizens who reside in South Texas have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute large amounts of cocaine and money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - One defendant pleaded guilty today and two are sentenced for a plot that brought three Florida men to Yuba City where they robbed marijuana traffickers at gunpoint, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. Clorenzo Griffin...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Carlos Gerardo Blanco, 25; Salvador Morales, 26; Jose Alejandro Jacobo, 23; Josefina Blanco, 23; Justin Alan Rivera, 20; and Henry Polin Morales III, 20 all residents of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 40-year-old Brownsville man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ricky Joe Urenda pleaded guilty Sept. 3...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A father and daughter and another defendant have all been ordered to federal prison following their convictions in a long-running effort to smuggle drugs via the United Parcel (UPS), announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson...

FRESNO, Calif. - Three Bakersfield men were sentenced in two separate cases on Monday by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill for conspiracies to traffic marijuana and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. In the first...

SAN FRANCISCO - - Seventeen defendants were named in a federal criminal complaint alleging a criminal conspiracy to traffic heroin announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Andrew...

AUSTIN, Texas - In Austin this afternoon, 54-year-old Mexican businessman Francisco Colorado Cessa faces up to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of scheming to launder millions of dollars in Los Zetas drug distribution proceeds through purchasing, training, breeding and racing American quarter horses in the...

WACO, Texas - In Waco, a federal district judge sentenced to federal prison the remaining two Aryan (AB) associates convicted of participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau...