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17 charged in federal indictment alleging cocaine/heroin/meth trafficking in Austin

September 27, 2019
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov AUSTIN, Texas -- This week, federal, state and local authorities … Chief Brian Manley, Cedar Park Police Chief Sean Mannix, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, …
September 27, 2019
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Houston physician and pain management clinic owner sentenced to 35 years each for running pill mill

September 20, 2018
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … and U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick of the Southern District of Texas made the announcement. Gazelle Craig, D.O., 42, and Shane Faithful, 49, both of Houston, Texas, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Hittner …
September 20, 2018
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Houston Physician And Pain Management Clinic Owner Convicted Of Running “pill Mill” That Provided Unlawful Prescriptions For Millions Of Doses Of Opioids And Other Controlled Substances

March 29, 2018
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the Drug … Craig, D.O., 41, and Shane Faithful, 48, both of Houston, Texas, were convicted of one count of conspiracy to …
March 29, 2018
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El Paso Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Participating In Las Cruces-Based Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring

August 12, 2014
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Melchor Arroyos, 53, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las … of the conspiracy transported methamphetamine from El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix, Ariz. to Doña Ana County, N.M., where …
August 12, 2014
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Life Imprisonment

January 12, 2011
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Murphy, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, announced that in El Paso this morning, United States … from Mexico into El Paso then distributed the cocaine in Texas, New Mexico and New York. Aguirre also directed the …
January 12, 2011
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Pharmacist And Others Charged In Pill Mill Case Plead Guilty

September 07, 2016
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … Pharmacy, located on Bolton Boone Drive in Desoto, Texas, has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming …
September 07, 2016
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Pharmacist Charged In Pill Mill Case Sentenced To 24 Months In Federal Prison

June 09, 2017
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … Pharmacy, located on Bolton Boone Drive in Desoto, Texas, was sentenced this morning for his involvement in a …
June 09, 2017
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Three Major Amarillo Methamphetamine Traffickers Arrested

June 09, 2017
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … dal060917_fig2.jpg dal060917_fig3.jpg AMARILLO, Texas - Three Amarillo residents have been charged by a …
June 09, 2017
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Twenty Charged In Drug Distribution Conspiracy

September 18, 2017
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … and John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced today. Seventeen of the 20 individuals are …
September 18, 2017
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South Carolina Man Sentenced For Drug Conspiracy And Gun Possession

June 14, 2013
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov LAREDO, Texas - Marcus Mickle, 21, of Columbia, S.C., has been … purchase of 500 pounds of marijuana for transport from Texas to South Carolina. He traveled with Mickle and Epps to …
June 14, 2013
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Heroin Distributor Gets Nearly 33 Years In Federal Prison In Mexican Mafia Case

February 05, 2016
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov LAREDO, Texas - Nearly two dozen people have been ordered to prison … in a 2013 indictment alleging members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang were involved in the drug …
February 05, 2016
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Alleged Sinaloa Cartel Operator Mauricio Sanchez-Garza Extradited From Mexico To Face Federal Charges In San Antonio Sanchez Faces Money Laundering And Extortion Charges Related To A Hollywood Screenplay

July 26, 2016
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … federal grand jury indictments in the Western District of Texas with laundering drug distribution proceeds and … Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter; and, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Sanchez had remained a …
July 26, 2016
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Authorities Announce Initiative Targeting Houston Violent Offenders

June 29, 2017
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov HOUSTON, Texas -  Houston area federal, state and local law … the U.S. Marshals Service, Commander Philip D. Steen of the Texas Department of Public (DPS), Special Agent in Charge …
June 29, 2017
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Kansas City Man Convicted Of Federal Drug Trafficking And Firearms Charges

November 23, 2011
… revealed that Riley had been mailing cocaine packages from Texas to Alaska since 2008. On April 13, 2009, agents seized … twenty dollar bills, that Riley was attempting to mail to Texas. Using various databases, a United States Postal … box linked to the defendant. The package had been sent from Texas, and the evidence at trial showed that the defendant …
November 23, 2011
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Meth Trafficker Handed Significant Sentence

April 17, 2018
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old Richardson man has been ordered to … in the near future. The Drug Enforcement Administration, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Corpus Christi …
April 17, 2018
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20 Years For Dallas Methamphetamine Trafficker

July 21, 2017
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.  Cendejas has been in custody since the time of his …
July 21, 2017
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Another Plea In Panama Unit Case

July 24, 2013
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov McALLEN, Texas -  --Alexis Espinoza, 30, has entered a guilty plea to … Investigations - Office of Professional Responsibility and Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant United States …
July 24, 2013
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Tyler County Woman Sentenced For Drug Trafficking

April 19, 2011
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … BEAUMONT, TX - A 29-year-old Warren, Texas, woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent …
April 19, 2011
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Fort Worth Man Sentenced To Statutory Maximum Of 40 Years In Federal Prison On Methamphetamine Conviction

March 07, 2016
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … City - (405) 475-7500 Tulsa - (918) 459-9600 FORT WORTH, Texas - Christopher Michael Stewart, 40, was sentenced this …
March 07, 2016
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Two Kilos Of Pure Meth Lands Couple In Federal Prison

September 18, 2015
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A couple from South Texas was handed significant sentences following their …
September 18, 2015
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DPrison Nurse Sentenced For Smuggling Heroin For Federal Inmate

January 22, 2016
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov BEAUMONT, Texas - A 44-year-old Beaumont woman has been sentenced for … drugs into a federal prison in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and Drug …
January 22, 2016
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Houston Man Pleads Guilty To Role In Money Laundering Conspiracy

April 16, 2015
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov McALLEN, Texas - Alejandro Morales-Flores, 60, a naturalized U.S. … from Houston to the Rio Grande Valley. A trooper with the Texas Department of Public (DPS) stopped him near San Manuel …
April 16, 2015
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Pensacola Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Interstate Drug Trafficking Operation

December 05, 2025
…  – Charlie N. Steans, 58, of Pensacola, Fla., and of Texas City, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for … large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine between Texas and Escambia County, Florida. The sentence was …
December 05, 2025
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 08, 2023
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … from communities across New Mexico and 17 counties of West Texas. A total of 71 cases involved social media platforms … cases involved encrypted communication platforms. El Paso, Texas – On Friday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration …
May 08, 2023
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UT Southwestern to Pay $4.5 Million to Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations That Permitted Drug Diversion by Staff

November 30, 2021
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … 475-7500 Tulsa - (918) 459-9600 Dallas - The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has agreed to pay $4.5 …
November 30, 2021
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Federal jury convicts two for multiple violent crimes

September 09, 2019
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov McALLEN, Texas – Two men face up to life in prison following their … School District Police Officer Juan F. Mata, 40, of Donna,Texas and former Hidalgo County Court at Law No. 6 bailiff …
September 09, 2019
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Heroin And Methamphetamine Traffickers Convicted

March 03, 2014
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … & Red Ribbon: Ciara A. Gregovich 720-431-8836 LAREDO, Texas - Edgar Loera and Miguel Angel Vives-Macias have been … numerous vehicle title histories from California and Texas as well as vehicle and passenger crossing records from …
March 03, 2014
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New Mexico Man Sentenced to More Than 27 Years in Prison for Cocaine Distribution

January 25, 2024
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … DTO trafficked approximately 58 kilos of cocaine throughout Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. On May 26, 2023 Hernandez … Hernandez DTO peddled over 127 pounds of cocaine throughout Texas, Mexico and Colorado,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime …
January 25, 2024
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Major Supplier and Two Others Involved in the Carrollton / Flower Mound Juvenile Overdose Case Sentenced

January 11, 2024
… Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 324-8505 DallasCommunityOutreach@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … that claimed the lives of three teenagers in North Texas.   Jason Xavier Villanueva, 23, Robert Alexander …
January 11, 2024
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Former Federal Officer Receives More Charges for Alien Smuggling

December 29, 2023
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov LAREDO, Texas – A 36-year-old Customs and Border Protection (CBP) … conducted the investigation with assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Border Patrol, Webb …
December 29, 2023