DEC 02 (BROWNSVILLE, Texas) - - A federal indictment charging Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been unsealed. The unsealing was announced by United States Attorneys Kenneth Magidson and Robert L. Pitman, of the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, respectively, along with...

HOUSTON - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas announced two men from the South Texas area have pleaded guilty to trafficking approximately five kilograms of methamphetamine in Houston in May...

LAREDO, Texas - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas announced Ivan Velasquez-Caballero, aka “Taliban” and “50” has been extradited to the U.S. and made his initial appearance this morning in...

LAREDO, Texas - Salvador Ibarra De-Alba, 48, of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has entered a plea of guilty for his role in a conspiracy to transport five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. De-Alba...

McALLEN, Texas - Raymundo Jose Cabrera-Paredes, of Mission, and Estevan Ochoa-Gomez, of Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico, have been ordered to federal prison for more than 20 years following their involvement in the distribution of crystal methamphetamine from McAllen to Dallas, announced Javier Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement...

McALLEN, Texas - Gelacio Cendejas-Renteria, 44, of Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico, and Julian Martinez-Rodriguez, 44, of McAllen, have been ordered to federal prison for their respective involvement in the distribution of crystal methamphetamine from McAllen to Houston, announced Javier Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with...

LAREDO, Texas - An indictment has been partially unsealed following the arrest of Santiago Martinez, 37, and Casimiro Bautista, 38, alleging their involvement in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The indictment...

OCT (INDIANAPOLIS) - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a city-wide operation that dismantled a massive drug trafficking organization in the Indianapolis area. The...

MILWAUKEE - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a 13-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging six defendants with various...

CHICAGO - - In a major pre-dawn enforcement action by a combined team of Chicago Police officers, DEA agents and additional State and Federal partners 33 individuals with alleged ties to the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent, drug trafficking street gang, were arrested. Ten defendants who allegedly directed or...