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Nineteen arrested in Waco on federal drug trafficking charges

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem Vaughn 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov WACO, Texas - Federal and state authorities have arrested 19 … San Antonio Division; Waco Police Chief Ryan Holt; and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw. A …
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DEA announces launch of Operation Crystal Shield

… 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 … in the Dallas Field Division, which includes North Texas and Oklahoma, have increased over 430% from 2018 to …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, 2019

… 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 … unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications across Texas and Oklahoma.   National Take Back Day has received …
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Career Criminal Sentenced in Corpus Christi for Drug Trafficking

… 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 46-year-old Santa Rosa resident has been sentenced …
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Undercover Operation Sends Drug Dealing Sex Offender to 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 27-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been …
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San Antonio Man Sentenced to 28 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Pharmacy Robberies

… 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 …
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Authorities Intercept Liquid Meth Shipment, Send the Trafficker to 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 McAllen, Texas – A 59-year-old Mexican citizen residing in Houston …
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Laredo Drug Dealer Receives Three Decades in 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 LAREDO, Texas – A 46-year-old man has been sentenced for possession …
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Drug Trafficking Mom Imprisoned for Smuggling Meth Across Border

… 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 …
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Man Receives Consecutive Sentences after Trafficking Meth

… 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 …
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Weslaco Man Sentenced for Attempting to Import Shoebox Containing Crystal Meth

… 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 …
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Repeat Offender Drug Smuggler sent to 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 BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A 47-year-old resident of Matamoros, Mexico, has …
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Laredo Felon Indicted for Trafficking Fentanyl and Possessing Various Firearms

… 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 …
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Convicted Felon Admits to Possessing Distributable Amounts Heroin

… 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 …
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Forney Resident Sentenced for Trafficking “Ice” for Michoacan Cartel

… 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 …
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Repeat Drug Trafficker Gets 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 McALLEN, Texas –A 63-year-old Pharr resident has been sentenced …
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Multi-kilo cocaine dealer from Mecklenburg County sentenced to 15 years in prison

… 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 …
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Drug conspiracy leader sentenced to over 10 years

… 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 …
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Trafficker indicted for transporting heroin inside car battery

… 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 …
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Former Physician is Sentenced to 30 Months after Conviction for Diverting Prescription Opioids

… 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 …
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Laredo Dealer Set to Appear for Fentanyl-Related Death

… 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 …
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Resident Alien Sent to Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth and Fleeing While Out on Bond

… 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 …
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Federal Officer Charged with Bribery and Attempted Importation of Cocaine

… 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) …
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Long-time Laredo Drug Dealer Heads to Prison for Selling “China White”

… 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 …
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Trafficker Sentenced to Prison for Smuggling $1.5M Worth of Cocaine in Produce Boxes

… 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 …
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Three More Sentenced in Laredo Drug Trafficking 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 LAREDO, Texas – Three Laredo residents have been sentenced for their …
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Car Battery Conspiracy: Three Men Convicted of Cocaine Trafficking

… 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 …
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Corpus Man Gets Hefty Sentence After Selling Controlled Substances via Facebook

… 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 …
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San Antonio Drug Dealer Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Fatal Fentanyl Distribution

… 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 …
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Third “Project Python” Man Sent to 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 LAREDO, Texas – A 50-year-old resident of Guanajuato, Mexico, has …