United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Mikhael Issa Kamar, aka Michael Kamar, 51, of Bakersfield, appeared today in federal court for arraignment on a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Fresno on December 12, 2013, charging him with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, distributing, and possessing...

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 today Roberto Garcia, 29, and Juan Javier Reyna, 33, both of Houston, have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Davies, 35, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for offenses involving the cultivation and sale of marijuana via dispensaries in Sacramento and Stockton, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner...

BROWNSVILLE, 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 today Julio Cesar Cardenas, 40, has been given four life sentences in federal prison for his involvement in leading a...

SAN FRANCISCO - - Ten individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of drug trafficking within 1,000 feet of schools in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, United States Attorney Melinda Haag, DEA Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, and San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced. The...

HOUSTON - Those arrested as a result of the discovery of approximately 14,000 marijuana plants from 43 marijuana grow houses in Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery Counties in August 2012 have now been ordered to prison announced, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña along with United States...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - In Brownsville last night, United States District Judge Andrew Hanen sentenced 51-year-old Austin attorney Marc Garrett Rosenthal to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $13,288,984.00 restitution for his role in a South Texas bribery scheme announced...

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...