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Siblings Sentenced for Selling Drugs Near Elementary School

… 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 Corpus Christi residents have been ordered to …
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Mexican National Found Guilty of Marijuana Distribution

… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff of the Western District of Texas and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting …
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Man Indicted for Distribution of Oxymorphone Causing Death

… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … 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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Cartel Associate Convicted of Massive Meth Trafficking Operation

… 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 … continues to be the number one threat in North Texas. DEA and all our law enforcement partners will …
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Valley Resident Sentenced for Meth 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 McALLEN, Texas – A 49-year-old Mission resident has been ordered to …
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Gang member sentenced to 120 months in prison for role in violent narcotics trafficking ring

… Tennessee Judicial Drug Task Force; the City of McAllen, Texas Police Department; HSI Harlingen, Texas; and the FBI offices in Houston, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi. On …
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Three Charged in Conspiracy to Purchase $500,000 in Weapons for 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 – Three men are now facing federal charges for their …
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Armed Drug Traffickers Get a Decade 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 McALLEN, Texas – Two men will now serve substantial prison sentences …
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DEA announces launch of Operation Crystal Shield

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … Houston Division, which covers South Central and South East Texas, DEA is seeing a significant increase in the amount of …
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Man sentenced for role in fentanyl trafficking operation

… 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 – Jesus Homero Ortiz, a 27-year-old resident of Laredo …
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Three charged with turning ocean into international drug trafficking superhighway

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … is the second such prosecution in the Southern District of Texas under a statute that allows any jurisdiction in the …
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Man heads to prison in multi-state marijuana 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 BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A 39-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to …
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Nearly a dozen drug traffickers off the streets and headed 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 total of 12 area drug traffickers and money …
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Local man guilty of firearms charge in furtherance of 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 federal jury returned a guilty verdict against a …
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Three foreign nationals sentenced for drug smuggling on the high seas

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … was the first such prosecution in the Southern District of Texas following a change in the law allowing any …
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Former Bailiff sentenced in drug 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 – A 53-year-old former bailiff with the Hidalgo County …
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Illegal alien charged in money laundering conspiracy and for firearms violation

… 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 grand jury has returned a two-count …
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Several charged in federal drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies

… 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 total of six men are now in custody following the …
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Quiroga brothers sentenced in drug and bulk cash smuggling 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 – Two brothers have been ordered to federal prison …
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Jury Convicts Former Police Officer

… 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 federal jury sitting in McAllen has returned a …
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Two Sentenced For Conspiring To Rob Drug Money From Undercover Agent

… 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 illegal aliens residing in Pharr have been …
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Former Odessa Adult Bookstore Owner Sentenced To Prison

… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Rincon (571) 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov ODESSA, Texas - Today in Midland, 68-year-old Jimmy Wayne Wright, …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Firearms Straw Purchasing And Smuggling Operation

… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … Rincon (571) 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov EL PASO, Texas - In El Paso this morning, U.S. District Judge Frank …
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DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … sites throughout the El Paso, Midland and Alpine, Texas regions and throughout all of New Mexico can be found …
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Sinaloa Drug Trafficker Extradited From Mexico

… 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 on January 27, 2011, that Carlos Mario …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… 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 … asked. “I want to invite all of the citizens in North Texas and Oklahoma to bring their unused prescription …
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Members Of Crack Cocaine Distribution Ring Sent To 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 McALLEN, Texas -  --Alfredo Barrientos, 30, of Rio Grande City, and …
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Houston Man Gets Significant Sentence For Drug Trafficking Through Falfurrias Checkpoint

… 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 - Luis Perez-Barocela, 38, has been ordered to prison …
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Drug Traffickers Plead Guilty On Eve Of Trial

… 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 - Jose Angel Marichalar, 33, Phillip Cross, 56, and …
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Angleton Man Hammered With 35-Year Sentence For Trafficking Meth

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … for trafficking methamphetamine in and through the Houston, Texas area from 2010 to 2012, announced Drug Enforcement …