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Head of the Gulf Cartel Jose Alfredo Cardenas-Martinez Indicted

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … El Contador has been indicted in the Southern District of Texas on various charges related to his position as the head … was also convicted in the Southern District of Texas and is awaiting sentencing. The Gulf Cartel is …
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Five Individuals Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Conspiracy

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … names of three businesses they registered with the state of Texas or in the names of co-conspirators. They did not … with the Department of the Treasury, nor did the state of Texas license them to engage in money transmission, …
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Near 20-Year Sentence for Drug Trafficking Ringleader in Austin Area

… 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  – U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel today sentenced … Chief Joseph Chacon, Cedar Park Police Chief Mike Harmon, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, …
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Over $1.1M in Civil Settlements Reaffirm DOJ’s Commitment to Preventing Opioid Abuse

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … of pharmaceutical opioids.” MedMark Treatment Centers of Texas Pays $412,500.00 MedMark Treatment Centers of Texas, Inc., dba MedMark Treatment Centers San Antonio …
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17 charged in federal indictment alleging cocaine/heroin/meth trafficking in Austin

… 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, …
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Houston physician and pain management clinic owner sentenced to 35 years each for running pill mill

… 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 …
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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

… 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 …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Participating In Las Cruces-Based Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring

… 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 …
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Life Imprisonment

… 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 …
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Pharmacist And Others Charged In Pill Mill Case Plead Guilty

… 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 …
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Pharmacist Charged In Pill Mill Case Sentenced To 24 Months In Federal Prison

… 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 …
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Three Major Amarillo Methamphetamine Traffickers Arrested

… 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 …
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Twenty Charged In Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… 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 …
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South Carolina Man Sentenced For Drug Conspiracy And Gun Possession

… 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 …
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Heroin Distributor Gets Nearly 33 Years In Federal Prison In Mexican Mafia Case

… 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 …
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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

… 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 …
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Authorities Announce Initiative Targeting Houston Violent Offenders

… 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 …
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Kansas City Man Convicted Of Federal Drug Trafficking And Firearms Charges

… 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 …
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Meth Trafficker Handed Significant Sentence

… 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 …
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20 Years For Dallas Methamphetamine Trafficker

… 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 …
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Another Plea In Panama Unit Case

… 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 …
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Tyler County Woman Sentenced For Drug Trafficking

… 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 …
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Fort Worth Man Sentenced To Statutory Maximum Of 40 Years In Federal Prison On Methamphetamine Conviction

… 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 …
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Two Kilos Of Pure Meth Lands Couple In Federal Prison

… 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 …
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DPrison Nurse Sentenced For Smuggling Heroin For Federal Inmate

… 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 …
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Houston Man Pleads Guilty To Role In Money Laundering Conspiracy

… 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 …
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Pensacola Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Interstate Drug Trafficking Operation

…  – 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 …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… 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 …
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UT Southwestern to Pay $4.5 Million to Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations That Permitted Drug Diversion by Staff

… 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 …
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Federal jury convicts two for multiple violent crimes

… 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 …