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Private Shipping Company to Pay $400,000 to Settle Allegations of Transshipping Fentanyl Precursor Chemicals

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 … U.S. Attorney Margaret Leachman for the Western District of Texas. “IMC Pro took on a responsibility to ensure the …
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Mexican National Admits Laundering $1.5 million on behalf of Cartel

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 … Organization Targets and that impact Houston and south Texas. Additional information about the OCDETF Program can …
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Leaders Of Methamphetamine Ring Each Receive 200-Month Prison Sentence

… 400 months in federal prison. Adan Mendoza, 36, of Dallas, Texas, and Brian I. Wilson, 37, of Little Rock, each … of Dallas. Wilson acquired methamphetamine from Mendoza in Texas and either personally transported it by car, or had … is also implicated in a separate federal conspiracy in Texas that began in 2019. While DEA was conducting …
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Local Man Sent to Prison for Trying to Intimidate Witnesses

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 20-year-old Mission man has been ordered to …
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DEA Recognizes First Ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day

… 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 local law enforcement agencies throughout North Texas are partnering together sharing intelligence and …
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Meth “Cooks” Sent to Prison in Custom Importation Scheme

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 – Three men have been sentenced for their roles in a …
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UPS Employee Heads to Prison for Concealing Cocaine in Packages

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 50-year-old Edinburg man has been sentenced …
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Two Sent to Prison After Drug Trafficking in Local Parking Lot

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 – Two Mission men have been ordered to federal prison …
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DEA El Paso Hiring Special Agents to Work in Local Offices

… Arellano 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 … in one of five local offices: El Paso, Midland, or Alpine, Texas or Las Cruces, Roswell, or Albuquerque, New Mexico. …
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Trap House Drug Dealer Sent to Prison

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 32-year-old Corpus Christi woman has been …
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DEA Administrator names Towanda R. Thorne-James as El Paso SAC

… Arellano 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 … of the El Paso Division, which serves New Mexico and West Texas. Thorne-James reported to El Paso in December 2023. …
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Fentanyl Distributer Tied to 13-Year-Old’s Overdose Death Pleads 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 … U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton. “The Northern District of Texas is pulling out all the stops to rid the streets of …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 … doses of fentanyl removed from communities across southeast Texas.    “Operation Last Mile inflicts a deliberating blow …
Melendez-Elizondo, Melina Yuriri
FUGITIVE

Melina Yuriri Melendez-Elizondo

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: The following alleged Federal Drug Violations:ct. 2 -21 usc 963 & 841 (b) (1) (A) - Importation of over 5 kilograms of cocainect. 3 - 21 usc 846 & 841 (b) (1) (A) - conspiracy to distribute & to possess with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaineCt. 4 - 21 usc 841(a) (1) & (b) (1) (A) - Possession with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaineCt. 10 - 18 USC 1956(h) to 18 USC 1956 (a)(2)(A) & (a)(2)(B)(i) money laundering.
Melendez-Elizondo, Anibal
FUGITIVE

Anibal Melendez-Elizondo

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: The following alleged Federal Drug Violations:
ct. 2 -21 usc 963 & 841 (b) (1) (A) - Importation of over 5 kilograms of cocainect. 3 - 21 usc 846 & 841 (b) (1) (A) - conspiracy to distribute & to possess with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaineCt. 4 - 21 usc 841(a) (1) & (b) (1) (A) - Possession with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaineCt. 10 - 18 USC 1956(h) to 18 USC 1956 (a)(2)(A) & (a)(2)(B)(i) money laundering.
Martinez, Daniel
FUGITIVE

Daniel Martinez

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: The following alleged Federal Drug Violations:21 USC 846841 (a) (1) and 841 (b) (1) (A) (vii) 21 USC 963952 (a) and 960 (a) (1) and 960 (b) (1) (G)21 USC 95921 USC 956
Melendez-Elizondo, Lluvia Rocia
FUGITIVE

Lluvia Rocia Melendez-Elizondo

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: The following alleged Federal Drug Violations:ct. 2 -21 usc 963 & 841 (b) (1) (A) - Importation of over 5 kilograms of cocainect. 3 - 21 usc 846 & 841 (b) (1) (A) - conspiracy to distribute & to possess with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaineCt. 4 - 21 usc 841(a) (1) & (b) (1) (A) - Possession with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaineCt. 10 - 18 USC 1956(h) to 18 USC 1956 (a)(2)(A) & (a)(2)(B)(i) money laundering.
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Murder-For-Hire Plot Foiled Againist a DEA Task Force Officer

… 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 … agents,” said U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. “These defendants were plotting to …
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Six Sent to Prison After Traffic Stops Yield Kilos of Meth

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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 Smoke’M Out with the assistance of Texas Department of Public Safety and the Corpus Christi …
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Midland Man Sentenced for Illegal Fentanyl and Firearm Possession

… Arellano 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 … is killing Americans across our nation, including in West Texas communities,” said Drug Enforcement Administration …
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Selling Synthetic Drugs Results in $9.2M Forfeiture and Prison for Seven

… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, 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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Former El Paso Police Officer Sentenced for Drug Conspiracy

… Arellano 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 … the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas for the successful prosecution and subsequent …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 27

… Arellano 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 – With robust public participation over the course of …
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Midland man pleads guilty to federal drug and firearm charges in connection with the murder of two Midlanders in July 2015

… Arellano 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 – Ryan David Green, 27, of Midland, faces up to life …
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DEA El Paso Division Safety Bulletin

… Arellano 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 Fake … DSC01390-30.jpg DEA’s El Paso Division, which covers West Texas and New Mexico, is issuing this safety bulletin to …
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Meth Dealers Who Plotted to Kill DEA Agent 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 … Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, the Texas Department of Public Security, the U.S. Marshals …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… 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 … drawers, and on countertops in homes all across North Texas and Oklahoma,” said Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent …
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Former Chihuahua, Mexico State Police Officer Sentenced to Prison on Federal Racketeering Charge

… Arellano 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 Police Department, El Paso Sheriff’s Office, and the Texas Department of Public Safety investigated this case. On …
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Operator of Charm City Motors Sentenced to Almost 11 Years

… showed that Norman Edmond  was arrested in Chambers County, Texas, driving a vehicle which had been purchased from Charm … and Custis to drive the car containing the cocaine from Texas to Maryland, and he would be paid $5,000 plus … gave her cash to pay for an attorney to represent Edmond in Texas. Campbell and his co-conspirators also had a source of …
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Odessa pharmacy and owner to pay $320,000 in civil penalties

… Arellano 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 … the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 EL PASO, Texas -- Odessa pharmacy Town & Country Drug, Inc. (Town & …