PRESS RELEASE

Two More Defendants Arrested During 2023 Joint Enforcement Operation in Carlsbad Plead Guilty to Federal Drug Offenses

February 28, 2024
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
February 28, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Two Men Sentenced to Prison for Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises at Motel in Albuquerque

February 13, 2024
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
February 13, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

DEA-Led Investigation Dismantles Albuquerque-Based Drug Trafficking Organization

January 12, 2024
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
January 12, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 23 years in Prison

October 14, 2022
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
October 14, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Joint law enforcement operation results in major eradication in northwest New Mexico

November 16, 2020
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
November 16, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Five Residents Of Valencia And Socorro Counties Arrested On Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Charges

July 01, 2011
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
July 01, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Eighty-Four Defendants Charged With Drug Trafficking Offenses As A Result Of DEA "MET" Operation In Roswell, New Mexico

September 23, 2011
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
September 23, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Investigation Dismantles Major Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Operating In Southeastern New Mexico

November 30, 2011
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
November 30, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-One Individuals Charged With Using Fraudulent Prescriptions To Obtain Oxycodone

February 14, 2013
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
February 14, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Fifteen Men Charged With Trafficking Drugs In Bernalillo And Santa Fe Counties

December 12, 2013
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
December 12, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s Albuquerque Office Spearheads New Mexico’s Multi-Agency Participation In Nationwide Synthetic Drug Takedown

May 09, 2014
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
May 09, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Leader Of Major Heroin Trafficking Ring Operating Out Of Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison

January 14, 2015
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
January 14, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Jury Finds Career Offender From Albuquerque Guilty Of Crack Trafficking And Firearms Charges

December 15, 2015
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
December 15, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Indictment Charges Eight With Participating In Taos County Heroin Trafficking And Money Laundering Ring

December 21, 2015
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
December 21, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Hospice Nurse Pleads Guilty To Prescription Opioid Conspiracy Charges

June 15, 2017
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
June 15, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Operation Reload: Jury Convicts Kingpin And Members Of His Family Of Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

July 22, 2011
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem …
July 22, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Orlando Pharmacist Convicted Of Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

March 21, 2016
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem …
March 21, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Investigation Of Alleged Chicago-Based Drug Trafficking Ring Results In 38 Defendants Federally Charged

June 22, 2011
… yesterday in Chicago, four in Cincinnati and one in Laredo, Texas.  Thirty-six of the 38 defendants are charged in … the Southern District of Ohio and the Southern District of Texas assisted in the investigation.  The investigation is …
June 22, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera Faces Charges In New York For Leading A Continuing Criminal Enterprise And Other Drug-Related Charges

January 20, 2017
… States on related charges filed in the Western District of Texas and Southern District of California, the Mexican … the Northern District of Illinois, the Western District of Texas, the Southern District of New York, the Southern …
January 20, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Sacramento Man Convicted Of Conspiracy Involving Sophisticated Indoor Residential Marijuana Grows

March 26, 2013
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem …
March 26, 2013
GENERAL INFORMATION

St. Louis News 2010

July 15, 2021
… Men Plead Guilty to Crack Cocaine Offenses August 20, 2010 Texas Man Indicted on Cocaine Offense August 20, 2010 … Man Convicted of Drug and Firearm Offenses August 18, 2010 Texas Man Charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute 65 Kilograms of Cocaine July 27, 2010 Texas Man Sentenced n Marijuana Offense July 27, 2010 …
July 15, 2021
GENERAL INFORMATION

WANTED: REWARD OF UP TO $5 MILLION

January 22, 2025
… in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.  The indictment charges Yip with one count of …
January 22, 2025
EVENT
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Community Event
August 02, 2019
August 02, 2019

10th Annual Community Drug Awareness Day Conference focuses on opioid addiction

1:00 AM - 7:30 AM (EDT)
Houston , TX
Today, our country’s most pervasive drug threat is the opioid overdose epidemic, which has been spurred on by the nonmedical abuse of prescription pain medications and heroin. This widespread outbreak is devastating and destroying communities throughout our country. It cuts across all demographics and socio-economic classes, including adults and adolescents...
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

December 03, 2025
… Eagle Pass, Galveston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio, Waco, Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Kareem … the steady decline in overdoses in most of the South Texas,” said Special Agent in Charge of the Houston Field …
December 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Hobbs Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Chase that led to Fentanyl and Meth Bust

August 08, 2025
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle … stop, however the driver fled from officers over the Texas border. Deputies from the Yoakum County Sheriff's …
August 08, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Six Colombian Nationals and Owner of Consumer Electronic Business Charged for Their Roles in Money Laundering and Unlicensed Money Transmission Business Offenses

January 17, 2020
… 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 …
January 17, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Eleven Muskogee defendants indicted in federal drug conspiracy

April 03, 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 …
April 03, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Fourteen Indicted in Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Linked to Deadly Fentanyl Distributed to Members of the Lummi Nation in Washington

October 03, 2024
… in Whatcom County. Law enforcement in Georgia, Missouri, Texas, and Arizona executed search warrants and some … pills throughout the United States, including in Arizona, Texas, Missouri, Montana, and Georgia. Together with our …
October 03, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Albuquerque Man Convicted of Federal Firearm Offenses

June 06, 2024
… Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional Division Info Community Outreach: Michelle …
June 06, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Cartel transportation head sentenced to federal prison

May 16, 2019
… a successful trucking and logistics company in Laredo, Texas, that specialized in moving goods across the border … are: Edgar Valdez-Villareal, a/k/a La Barbie, of Laredo, Texas, who was sentenced to 49 years and one month in prison …
May 16, 2019