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San Antonio Man Sentenced to 28 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Pharmacy Robberies

December 13, 2024
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … and U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas made the announcement. The Drug Enforcement …
December 13, 2024
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Authorities Intercept Liquid Meth Shipment, Send the Trafficker to Prison

November 21, 2024
… 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 – A 59-year-old Mexican citizen residing in Houston …
November 21, 2024
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Laredo Drug Dealer Receives Three Decades in Prison

October 22, 2024
… 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 46-year-old man has been sentenced for possession …
October 22, 2024
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Drug Trafficking Mom Imprisoned for Smuggling Meth Across Border

October 15, 2024
… 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 – A 41-year-old Dallas woman has been sentenced for …
October 15, 2024
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Man Receives Consecutive Sentences after Trafficking Meth

September 23, 2024
… 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 – A 31-year-old Mission man has been ordered to …
September 23, 2024
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Weslaco Man Sentenced for Attempting to Import Shoebox Containing Crystal Meth

September 17, 2024
… 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 – A 23-year-old man has been sentenced for drug …
September 17, 2024
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Repeat Offender Drug Smuggler sent to Prison

September 04, 2024
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A 47-year-old resident of Matamoros, Mexico, has …
September 04, 2024
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Laredo Felon Indicted for Trafficking Fentanyl and Possessing Various Firearms

August 20, 2024
… 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 39-year-old man has been charged with conspiracy …
August 20, 2024
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Convicted Felon Admits to Possessing Distributable Amounts Heroin

August 06, 2024
… 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 32-year-old Laredo man has pleaded guilty to …
August 06, 2024
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Forney Resident Sentenced for Trafficking “Ice” for Michoacan Cartel

August 02, 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 40-year-old Texan has been sentenced for …
August 02, 2023
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Repeat Drug Trafficker Gets Significant Sentence

March 27, 2024
… 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 –A 63-year-old Pharr resident has been sentenced …
March 27, 2024
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Multi-kilo cocaine dealer from Mecklenburg County sentenced to 15 years in prison

January 16, 2020
… arranged for the delivery of 28 kilograms of cocaine from Texas to Virginia. On May 30, 2019, a tractor-trailer that originated in Texas and was driven by co-defendant Jorge Enrique Suarez, … multiple shipments of cocaine from the suppliers in Texas and had distributed at least 71 kilograms of cocaine …
January 16, 2020
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Drug conspiracy leader sentenced to over 10 years

June 12, 2019
… D. Whitney sentenced today David Flores, 35, of Dallas, Texas, to 121 months in prison and five years of supervised … was part of a drug conspiracy that trafficked cocaine from Texas to North Carolina. In October 2017, DEA agents seized … had been contracted by Flores to transport the cocaine from Texas to members of the drug conspiracy located in …
June 12, 2019
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Trafficker indicted for transporting heroin inside car battery

November 16, 2018
… kilograms of heroin - hidden inside a car battery - from Texas to the Atlanta area. “Drug distribution is about … law enforcement conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle from Texas traveling east along Interstate 20 in Douglas County, … was arrested and denied bond.  Rivera, 64, of Houston, Texas was charged with possession with intent to distribute …
November 16, 2018
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Former Physician is Sentenced to 30 Months after Conviction for Diverting Prescription Opioids

January 25, 2024
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … “Despite losing his medical privileges in the State of Texas, Silva continued to prescribe hundreds of highly …
January 25, 2024
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Laredo Dealer Set to Appear for Fentanyl-Related Death

January 08, 2024
… 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 federal grand jury has returned an indictment …
January 08, 2024
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Resident Alien Sent to Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth and Fleeing While Out on Bond

December 20, 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 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 54-year-old legal permanent resident of Mexico …
December 20, 2023
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Federal Officer Charged with Bribery and Attempted Importation of Cocaine

December 05, 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 35-year-old Customs and Border Protection (CBP) …
December 05, 2023
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Long-time Laredo Drug Dealer Heads to Prison for Selling “China White”

November 30, 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 39-year-old man has been sentenced for possessing …
November 30, 2023
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Trafficker Sentenced to Prison for Smuggling $1.5M Worth of Cocaine in Produce Boxes

November 09, 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 McALLEN, Texas – A 50-year-old Mexican national has been ordered to …
November 09, 2023
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Three More Sentenced in Laredo Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

November 01, 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 – Three Laredo residents have been sentenced for their …
November 01, 2023
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Car Battery Conspiracy: Three Men Convicted of Cocaine Trafficking

November 01, 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 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Two men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic …
November 01, 2023
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Corpus Man Gets Hefty Sentence After Selling Controlled Substances via Facebook

October 05, 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 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 38-year-old local man has been ordered to federal …
October 05, 2023
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San Antonio Drug Dealer Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Fatal Fentanyl Distribution

September 07, 2023
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas. “My hope is that families of fentanyl victims—in this …
September 07, 2023
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Third “Project Python” Man Sent to Prison

August 30, 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 50-year-old resident of Guanajuato, Mexico, has …
August 30, 2023
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Laredo Resident Indicted for Distributing Fentanyl Causing the Death to a Juvenile

August 28, 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 federal grand jury has returned an indictment …
August 28, 2023
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Corpus Christi Couple Caught Carrying Meth

August 07, 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 VICTORIA, Texas – Two Corpus Christi residents have pleaded guilty to …
August 07, 2023
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Corpus Christi Resident Sentenced for Trafficking Meth

August 09, 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 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 23-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison …
August 09, 2023
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Local Drug Dealer Admits to Selling “China White”

August 08, 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 38-year-old resident of Laredo has entered a …
August 08, 2023
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South Texan Guilty of Trafficking Cocaine Through Checkpoint

July 14, 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 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A federal jury in Corpus Christi has convicted a …
July 14, 2023