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

… 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 …
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Cartel transportation head sentenced to federal prison

… 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 …
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Drug Trafficking Organization Member Sentenced for 8 Felony Counts

… to the St. Louis and Kansas City areas from Mexico via Texas and Florida. Green was a lower-level distributor …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 12 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

… of Connecticut, announced that Raul Chavez, 57, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker … operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to Connecticut and …
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Attorney General Recognizes Assistant U.S. Attorney And Law Enforcement Officials From The Western District Of Tennessee

… conducted a traffic stop of a silver Toyota Corolla with a Texas license plate. The vehicle was occupied by two males. … revealed that Gauna and Garcia had traveled from Austin, Texas to the Western District of Tennessee with …
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Federal Investigation Dismantles Major Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Operating In Southeastern New Mexico

… 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 20 …
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Superseding Indictment Charges Fifteen Additional Alleged Latin King Members And Associates In A RICO Conspiracy

… in the Chicago/Northwest Indiana area and Big Spring, Texas. In one instance, Bernal, Gudino, Robles, Jalomos and … has branched out throughout the United States, including to Texas. The Latin Kings is a well organized street gang that …
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Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Narcotics Trafficking 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 …
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Eighty-Four Defendants Charged With Drug Trafficking Offenses As A Result Of DEA "MET" Operation In Roswell, New Mexico

… 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 …
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Five Residents Of Valencia And Socorro Counties Arrested On Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking 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 …
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Woonsocket Resident Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison On Drug Trafficking, Firearm Charges

… once a month Miguel Colon traveled by vehicle to Texas and/or Florida to obtain large quantities of cocaine … developed information that Colon was on a drug run to Texas and Florida, and that he was scheduled to arrive in …
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Federal Jury Finds Career Offender From Albuquerque Guilty Of Crack Trafficking And Firearms 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 …
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Pharmacy Robber Sentenced To 141 Months For Conviction On Federal Hobbs Act, Drug Trafficking And Firearms 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 …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 7 Years In Federal Prison For Brokering 25 Kilogram Cocaine Deal

… that Andrew Duron, also known as “Chavo,” 35, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey … trafficking organization that transported cocaine from Texas to Connecticut.  In 2014, the organization attempted …
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Alleged Members Of Grant County Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Arrested On Federal 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 …
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Flight Attendant, Two Bank Employees Charged in Federal Indictment of Alleged Mexico-Based Drug Trafficking Organization

… of its Chicago operations, Ricardo Tello, 37, of Mission, Texas. Espinosa’s organization allegedly transported the …
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Drug Kingpin Indicted In New York

… cross-country. Quiroz-Zamora took a circuitous route from Texas to New York, flying by commercial airline from Texas to Connecticut and then making his way to Delaware, …
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Oklahoma Inmate Sentenced to 26 Years for Leading Meth Conspiracy from his Prison Cell

… a controlled substance in the Northern District of Texas. This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement …
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DEA Warns of Increase in Mass-Overdose Events Involving Deadly Fentanyl

… Cities impacted include Wilton Manors, Florida; Austin, Texas; Cortez, Colorado; Commerce City, Colorado; Omaha, …
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Pair Sentenced In Child Support Collection Business And Drug Conspiracy

… a drug distribution conviction in the Southern District of Texas.  The sentences were handed down by U.S. District … the transmission of the vehicle he was driving, which had Texas tags and had crossed the border into Mexico as …
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Five Santa Fe Residents Arrested On Federal Oxycodone Trafficking 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 Three …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 6 1/2 Years for Fentanyl-Related Charges

… Division, the Merrillville District Office, the Amarillo Texas Resident Office and the Albuquerque New Mexico …
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Teens Tackling The Opioid Crisis: Discovery Education And The Drug Enforcement Administration Announce Finalists In 1st Annual Operation Prevention Video Challenge

… School. Ayodeji Ogunlana for “More.” Mercedes, TX.  South Texas High School for Health  Professionals. (South Texas Independent School District) Shelbea Owen for “Davis …
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Operation Great Scott 17 DEA Little Rock Defendants Sentenced To Over 113 Years In Prison

… under surveillance as he left Waldron and drove to Irving, Texas, to pick up a large amount of methamphetamine.  After … 20.4 grams of methamphetamine. Cody Pittman, 29, of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to 168 months in prison for conspiring …
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Rhode Island Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For His Role In Wide-Ranging Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy That Spanned Across The Country

… that spanned across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Texas and North and South Carolina.  Erik Ventura, 36, was …
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Zenobia Penn Sentenced in Cocaine Conspiracy

… Clarence Walker, and others traveled from Baltimore to Texas to purchase kilograms of cocaine which they resold in … couriers to help her transport bundles of money to Texas. The couriers commonly affixed the money to their …
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Thirteen Cibola County Residents Charged With Drug Trafficking And Firearms Offenses

… 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 …
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21 Charged With Trafficking Of Prescription Opiates

… in Oregon, Osasuyi Kenneth Idumwonyi, 55, of Spring, Texas, her office manager, and a total of 17 other … in January of 2015. Idumwonyi was living in Spring, Texas, during the time of the offense conduct and flew …
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Operation Reload: Jury Convicts Kingpin And Members Of His Family Of Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… 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 …