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Drug Traffickers Sentenced for Distributing 100 Kilograms of Methamphetamine Per Week in Atlanta Area

… per week while hiding on the other end of a cell phone in Mexico,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “These … in court: Victor Aguirre-Rodriguez was a member of a Mexico-based drug-trafficking organization (DTO) with a … began negotiating on behalf of the DTO via telephone from Mexico with Colombian cocaine suppliers.  Unbeknownst to …
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Thirteen Facing Federal Charges For Trafficking Heroin

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico announced that thirteen defendants have been charged …
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Treasury Designates Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Bosses

… of operation along the Sonora-Arizona corridor of the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary, which extends for nearly 375 … direct, and support the smuggling of illegal drugs from Mexico into the U.S. and the smuggling of illicit contraband from the U.S. into Mexico.  Plaza bosses rely on violence to maintain their …
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Cartel transportation head sentenced to federal prison

… feel safer.”    “Montemayor came to the United States from Mexico and used his skills, hard work, and the opportunities … in moving goods across the border from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and then into and across the United States.  In … a Mexican drug cartel, needed help moving his cocaine from Mexico to customers in the United States. Montemayor’s …
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Operación dirigida por la DEA que tiene como blanco al Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación genera más de 600 arrestos

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … drogas ilegales hacia y a través del oeste de Texas y Nuevo México serán responsables por el daño que causan a nuestras …
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Five Santa Fe Residents Arrested On Federal Oxycodone Trafficking Charges

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … Raymond J. Rael of the Santa Fe Police Department, and New Mexico State Police Lieutenant W. Troy Weisler, Commander of …
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Alleged Members Of Grant County Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Arrested On Federal Charges

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … this community safe.” “Grant County, like so many of New Mexico's historic, scenic areas, offers lots for residents …
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Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Narcotics Trafficking Charges

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Jiron, 41, of Albuquerque, N.M., …
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Agency Heads Announce Major Criminal Action Against Cartel

… 2008, Jesus Valencia Rodriguez has been identified as the Mexico-based gate keeper working for the Caborca-based … multi-ton quantities of marijuana and illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States through the San Miguel Gate … of bulk drug proceeds and assault weapons back into Mexico. The San Miguel Gate area is a remote U.S./Mexico …
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Governor of Sinaloa and Nine Current and Former Mexican Officials Face Drug Trafficking and Weapons Charges

… violence, including thousands of murders, throughout Mexico and elsewhere around the world, including in the … for massive bribes.  Indeed, certain police officials in Mexico, including, as alleged, certain of the defendants, … enemies of the Cartel and kidnapping individuals in Mexico suspected of cooperating with U.S. law enforcement in …
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Thirty-Four Facing Federal And Tribal Charges Arising Out Of Methamphetamine Trafficking On Mescalero Apache Reservation

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in Nov. and Dec. 2015.  Sixteen other members of the …
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Forty-One Facing Drug Trafficking Charges As A Result Of Multi-Agency Investigation In Chaves County

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … Police Department, Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, the New Mexico State Police.  Twenty-one of the defendants charged …
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$5 Million Reward Offered for Sinaloa Cartel-Linked Drug Trafficker

… of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin from Mexico into the United States. It is also believed that the … the “Chapitos” has resulted in increased cartel violence in Mexico.    Ponce Felix’s organization directly manages the … cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin, from Mexico to the U.S., as well as the sending of proceeds from …
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Three Chinese Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Five Employees Charged with Conspiring to Manufacture Fentanyl

… building blocks of fentanyl to the United States and Mexico, even providing advice on how they should be used to … supplied drug traffickers, in the United States and Mexico, with the ingredients and scientific know-how needed … supplied precursor chemicals to the United States and Mexico, among other places, knowing they would be used to …
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Four of Chapo’s Sons Indicted for Large-Scale Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Violent Crimes as Alleged Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel

… Jan. 5, 2023, by Mexican authorities in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. He remains detained in Mexico pending extradition proceedings. The charges, … Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala, into Mexico, stored that cocaine throughout Mexico, and …
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“Operation G-60” Dismantles Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Operating In Metro Atlanta

… are federal fugitives: ADRIAN MARTINEZ-MONTANEZ, 41, Mexico, ROBERTO PEREZ-MENDOZA, 32, Mexico, MARIA MADRIZ-HERNANDEZ, 47, Smyrna, SAMANTHA … SEPULVEDA-MADRIZ, 23, Smyrna, FAUSTO BUENO-ALVAREZ, 32, Mexico, FRANKLIN ALVARADO-MEJIA, 23, Guatemala, LUIS …
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Two Mexican drug traffickers charged with the murder of a Mexican soldier and conspiring to import cocaine into the United States

… U.S. rule of law. I commend our law enforcement partners in Mexico on this significant seizure and their pursuit to … to land a plane full of cocaine on a remote highway in Mexico,” said U.S. Attorney Berman. “When Mexican … the Mexican State of Quintana Roo. Military Officers with Mexico’s Secretaría de la Defense Nacional (SEDENA) met the …
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Five Plead Guilty to Drug, Firearms, and Immigration Offenses

… - (662) 234-8542 JACKSON, MS– Five individuals with ties to Mexico have pled guilty over the past month to felony … firearms and machine gun conversion devices for delivery to Mexico. According to court documents, Rosendo Gonzalez Mora, … of life in prison. Rosendo Gonzalez Mora, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty on June 17, 2024, to possessing a …
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … DEA El Paso Field Division, which covers West Texas and New Mexico, seized 1.5 million fentanyl pills and nearly 165 …
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Butte Drug Trafficking Organization with Ties to the Sinaloa Cartel Dismantled

… 2,043 pounds of meth and 722,000 fentanyl-laced pills from Mexico to Butte for redistribution, with $2.98 million … convictions of individuals from Montana, California and Mexico.  At least three of the defendants have direct ties … fake oxycontin pills laced with fentanyl, and heroin from Mexico and into Montana for distribution. This years-long …
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Albuquerque Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 17 years in Prison

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that John Seibel was sentenced on Aug. 2 …
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Indictments against 11 high level Mexican drug cartel members unsealed

… The CJNG has emerged as the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and is considered by the Department of Justice as one … Los Angeles area - as well as for significant violence in Mexico. The CJNG has grown in size and strength rapidly … Salazar is currently a fugitive and is believed to be in Mexico. The following individuals linked to the CJNG have …
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High-Ranking CJNG Leader Charged with Federal Drug Trafficking Conspiracy, Firearm Offenses, and Money Laundering Conspiracy

… Audias Flores Silva, also known as “Jardinero,” 45, of Mexico, a high-ranking leader of the Mexico-based drug trafficking organization the Cartel de … to launder drug proceeds from the United States back to Mexico. Before his capture on April 27 by Mexican …
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Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr. Admits to Leading Vast Drug-Smuggling, Money Laundering Empire

… SAN DIEGO - Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr. of Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court today to drug and … transported ton-quantities of cocaine from South America to Mexico and into the United States. According to court … cells in Central America to transport the cocaine into Mexico via boats, aircraft and commercial vehicles, where …
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Recruiter for Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … “Samantha,” aka “Sophia,” 43, of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, worked for a drug trafficking organization (DTO) led …
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Mexican Citizen Extradited to United States on Narcotics Conspiracy Charge

… - (732) 431-7160 x2242 NEWARK, N.J. – A citizen of Mexico who was extradited to the United States on narcotics … to distribute heroin. Flores-Fernandez was arrested in Mexico at the request of the United States on Sept. 24, … was detained. Flores-Fernandez was part of a Guadalajara, Mexico-based drug trafficking organization that distributed …
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Albuquerque Man Charged in a Second Superseding Indictment for Drug and Firearms Offenses

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that a federal grand jury returned a …
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Three Men Pled Guilty to Federal Charges Involving Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 915-479-2540 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Gregory M. Millard, Special Agent in Charge for …
Leal-Burciaga, Moises Ivan
FUGITIVE

Moises Ivan Leal-Burciaga

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy & Possession w/ Intent to DistCocaine
Torres-Mota, Eliseo
FUGITIVE

Eliseo Torres-Mota

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Mexico