United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old federal inmate has been sentenced for receiving contraband in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Sultan Adnan Al-Bizri, of Lubbock, Texas, pleaded guilty on Mar. 11...

INDIANAPOLIS - ―The Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with the Indiana State Police and Scott County Sheriff's Department executed enforcement actions from June 16 through June 20, 2015, which resulted in the arrest of Michael ELKINS, John MORGAN, Tyler TURNER and William THROWER; the seizure of 19 Opana pills, approximately 14...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - An indictment has been officially unsealed charging Eugenio Hernandez Flores, the former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, with conspiring to launder monetary instruments and aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Six men and three women have now been ordered to federal prison following the sentencing of two more today in a lengthy case which was the result of the efforts of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation dubbed “Operation Prototype,” announced Drug Enforcement Administration...

WACO, Texas - In Waco today, a federal district judge sentenced 18 Aryan (AB) members and associates to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and...

McALLEN, Texas - Manuel de la Cruz Jr., 32, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute nearly 11 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson...

SAN ANTONIO - A former major drug trafficker in the Piedras Negras “Plaza,” 46-year-old Esiquiel (aka “Cheke”), was sentenced in San Antonio today to 420 months in federal prison for federal drug and firearm violations announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Acting United States Attorney Richard Durbin...

DEL RIO, Texas - In Del Rio yesterday, 45-year old Texas Mexican (TMM) member Jesus Meza, Jr. (aka “Jesse”) was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for violating federal racketeering and drug trafficking statutes announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal...

MILWAUKEE - ― Federal law enforcement officials today announced the arrest of Chinese National Haijun Tian, the highest-level synthetic designer drug trafficker apprehended to date in the United States. Agents from the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Criminal (IRS) arrested Tian at Los Angeles International Airport...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - ― United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of 41 members of a multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy. The 41 defendants named in the indictment were charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, Methamphetamine, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, Hydrocodone, and Methadone. Several defendants were charged with additional...