United States Drug Enforcement Administration

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Federal authorities this morning concluded a 2½-year wiretap investigation into a drug trafficking organization based in the Coachella Valley by arresting eight defendants linked to the distribution of wholesale quantities of methamphetamine. The eight people arrested today by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration are among...

ATLANTA – Ricardo Silva, a current inmate at Smith State Prison and a high-ranking member of the Sureños prison gang, has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine. He is currently serving a sentence with the state of Georgia for trafficking cocaine. “The mission of DEA...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Jesus Fransisco Cervantes, 31, of Oklahoma City pled guilty today to conspiring to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA and Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. A federal grand jury...

LAREDO, Texas - A 31-year-old resident of Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction for conspiracy with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Rolando Garcia-Fuentes pleaded guilty March...