United States Drug Enforcement Administration

Dallas - Twenty alleged drug dealers and their associates have been arrested and charged in “Operation Shut Down Corner,” announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chávez. The operation – which involved more than 150 agents and officers from the North Texas OCEDTF Strike Force – focused on Hamilton...

LUBBOCK, TX - Forty defendants – including 15 arrested in Wednesday’s “Operation Taste the Rainbow” in Lubbock – have been charged with gun and drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. The men and women, all allegedly tied to methamphetamine trafficking in and around Lubbock, have been charged in...

Lubbock, TX - Two Texas Syndicate members, a prison gang, were sentenced today to a combined 50 years in prison for drug trafficking in Lubbock, announced by DEA Dallas Field Division Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez. Jose Daniel Flores, aka “Cuate,” 43, was sentenced to 360 months in...