LOS ANGELES - A Mexican businessman pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring with the owners of a Los Angeles area toy wholesaler to launder thousands of “narco dollars” for drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. Luis Ernesto Flores Rivera, 54, of Guadalajara, Mexico, faces up to 20 years in...

SAN LUIS, AZ - Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with the U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE), U.S. Border (USBP), Yuma County Sheriff’s (YCSO) and Arizona Department of Public (DPS) executed a search warrant Saturday morning at a business used to conceal the U.S. entrance to a tunnel...

PHOENIX, AZ. - DEA Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Tempe Police Department Chief of Police Tom Ryff along with Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne announced today the culmination of a 6-month long investigation regarding the dismantling of an extensive drug trafficking cell associated with the Sinaloa Cartel headed...

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...

PHOENIX, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Tempe Police Department Chief of Police Tom Ryff along with Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced today the culmination of a 15-month long investigation regarding an extensive trafficking cell associated with the...

- TEMPE, AZ. - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Tempe Police Department along with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office will host a press conference tomorrow morning, Tuesday December 20th, 2011 at 11:00 AM to announce the results of a 15-month long investigation that...

- TUCSON, AZ - . - Gilbert Thompson, 34, of North Lauderdale, Florida, a native of Jamaica and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was sentenced on December 15, 2011, by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to seven years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with the intent to...

PHOENIX, AZ. - Doug Coleman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Phoenix Field Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel announced that a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 130-count indictment against Angelo Chirban M.D. , 62, and Marilyn Chirban, 60, of Queen Creek, Arizona, for...

TUCSON, AZ. - On December 12, Evelio Cervantes-Conde, 39, a Cuban immigrant lawfully residing in the United States, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner Collins to 151 months in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Five Kilograms of Cocaine and Attempt to Possess Five Kilograms of...