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Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 …
Chuen Yip
FUGITIVE

Chuen Yip

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Title 21 USC 846
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Han Gil Hotel demolished, was a "safe haven" for drug distributors

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … A. Chávez and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Shuttered since the U.S. Attorney’s …
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20 Years For Dallas Methamphetamine Trafficker

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@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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Man Indicted for Distribution of Oxymorphone Causing Death

… Castañeda Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) 526-0700 Texas Alpine - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 EL … U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff of the Western District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson of the …
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Arlington Doctor Sentenced to 12 Years in Pill Mill Case

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … Inspector General, IRS – Criminal Investigations, and the Texas Department of Insurance conducted the investigation. …
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El Paso Area Doctor Indicted On Federal Drug Charges

… Castañeda Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) 526-0700 Texas Alpine - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 EL PASO, Texas - A local physician faces federal drug trafficking …
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Local man handed major sentence in drug and money laundering conspiracy

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 55-year-old Robstown man has been ordered to …
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Local man sentenced for meth conspiracy and firearm offense

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 40-year old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to …
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Officer And Co-Defendant Arrested In Conspiracy To Traffic Cocaine

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … San Antonio - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 McALLEN, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count …
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Two Ordered To Federal Prison In Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two men have been ordered to federal prison …
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10 Arrested In Large-Scale Drug And Money Laundering Conspiracy

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Several South Texas men and one from Houston have …
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Brothers Convicted In Synthetic Drug Distribution Conspiracy Sentenced To Lengthy Federal Prison Terms

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.  Barry Bays, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge …
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Officer And Co-Defendant Arrested In Conspiracy To Traffic Cocaine

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … San Antonio - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 McALLEN, Texas - Noel Pena, 29, a Rio Grande City Police Department …
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Jefferson County Man Guilty Of Drug Trafficking Violations

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … Antonio - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 BEAUMONT, Texas - A 25-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has pleaded …
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Selling Synthetic Drugs Results in $9.2M Forfeiture and Prison for Seven

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … dubbed Operation Brain Freeze with the assistance of Texas Department of Public Safety and sheriff’s offices in …
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Siblings Sentenced for Selling Drugs Near Elementary School

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Two Corpus Christi residents have been ordered to …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… Castañeda Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) 526-0700 Texas Alpine - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 DEA … to dispose of 10 million pounds of unused pills El PASO , Texas  – After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million …
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Multi-agency Investigation Dismantles Las Cruces-based Drug Trafficking Organizations

… Castañeda Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) 526-0700 Texas Alpine - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 One … and money launderers operating in southern New Mexico, west Texas and as far east as Tennessee and South Carolina. …
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Mexican National Found Guilty of Marijuana Distribution

… Castañeda Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) 526-0700 Texas Alpine - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 PECOS … U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff of the Western District of Texas and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting …
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Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to $900,000 Drug-Trafficking Conspiracy

… the country, admitted that he made dozens of trips to Texas to obtain cocaine to distribute in the Kansas City … metropolitan area. He made 38 trips by flight to Houston, Texas, to obtain cocaine, then rented a vehicle to return …
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Houston News 2009

July 15, 2021
… in Massive Cocaine Investigation in Eastern District of Texas October 30, 2009 Valley Narcotics Trafficker/Money … and Medicare/Medicain Fraud May 28, 2009 73 Arrested in Texas Steroid Bust January 30, 2009 Man Responsible for …
July 15, 2021
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Mom Pleads Guilty to Providing Fentanyl That Killed Her Sons’ Father

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 …
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Federal And State Authorities Arrest 23 Individuals Today In Relation To Cocaine And Methamphetamine Distribution Operations In Permian Basin

… Castañeda Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) 526-0700 Texas Alpine - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 MIDLAND, Texas - - In Midland and Odessa this morning, authorities …
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Kaufman Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Methamphetamine

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … J. Ganjei. “Drug traffickers in the Eastern District of Texas will not escape justice.” This case was investigated …
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Two Weslaco Residents Arrested For Trafficking Marijuana

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … San Antonio - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 LAREDO, Texas - An indictment has been partially unsealed following …
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Jury Convicts Two In Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@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 - Following a two-day jury trial before U.S. District …
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Honduran National Extradited and Sentenced for Importing Cocaine

… X Joseph B. Tucker Domestic Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Tyler, Texas, and Oklahoma Additional Division Info Community … 214-724-3020 Erin.J.Fischer@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Fort Worth - (817) 639-2000 Lubbock - (806) 798-7189 … for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. …
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Robstown-based heroin leader heads to federal prison

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300   CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The leader of a massive heroin and money laundering …
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New Jersey Truck Driver Sentenced For Drug Trafficking

… Domestic Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Galveston, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … 571-324-6193 Kareem.R.Vaughn@dea.gov Division Contacts Texas Austin - (512) 344-4900 Beaumont - (409) 981-7400 … San Antonio - (210) 442-5600 Waco - (254) 297-0300 LAREDO, Texas - Rigoberto Torres, 39, a legal permanent resident …