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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

… and prosecution. While the cartels’ operations are based in Mexico, DEA has identified more than 50 additional countries … from companies in China, mass produce the fentanyl in Mexico, and then traffic and distribute finished fentanyl … leaders, enforcers, and associates of the cartels in Mexico, to tracking down the criminal organizations and …
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Federal Jury Finds Career Offender From Albuquerque Guilty Of Crack Trafficking And Firearms Charges

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
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Member And Associate Of Barrio Azteca Gang Plead Guilty To Racketeering Conspiracy

… among other things, the March 13, 2010, murders in Juarez, Mexico, of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and the … state and federal prisons in the United States and Mexico. The gang has a military-like command structure - … heroin, cocaine and marijuana into the United States from Mexico. BA members and associates also allegedly charge a …
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DEA Leads Largest U.S. Strike Against La Familia Cartel Twenty-Month Series Of Investigations Lead To Nearly 2,000 Arrests, Over $60 Million Seized

… operations of Mexican drug cartels in the United States and Mexico,” said Deputy Attorney General James Cole. “Today, we … the Secretariat of Public Security, the Government of Mexico has seen increased results in their fight against the drug trafficking organizations,” said Mexico’s Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna. …
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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

… the fastest growing transnational criminal organizations in Mexico, and among the most prolific methamphetamine … the United States, and elevated levels of violence in Mexico. With methamphetamine abuse and overdose deaths on … and second in command of CJNG, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on charges of alleged drug …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To Life In Prison In Connection With Murder-For-Hire Plot

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … scheme whereby victims were kidnapped and held in Juarez, Mexico, while he and other criminal associates located in El …
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El Paso News 2010

July 15, 2021
… 11, 2010 Three DEA El Paso Fugitives Extradited from Mexico November 19, 2010 DEA Operations Dismantle Two Major … Prompts Arrests of Drug Traffickers in Southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas November 5, 2010 Andrews Man … August 17, 2010 Cuidad Juarez Trafficker Extradited from Mexico July 9, 2010 Federal Prison Sentences Handed Down to …
July 15, 2021
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Las Cruces Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Conviction

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … CRUCES, N.M - Jessie Jesus Marquez, 37, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced last week in federal court to 121 …
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Operation Four Horsemen Results In Millions Going Back To Law Enforcement Agencies

… over $23 million in cash which was on its way back to Mexico to fuel the cartels. By taking money out of the … initiated an investigation which ultimately uncovered two Mexico-based drug trafficking cells operating in the Atlanta … shipments of cocaine that arrived in tractor-trailers from Mexico. After the drug traffickers received the cocaine …
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High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Member’s Guilty Plea Unsealed; Zambada-Niebla’s Cooperation With U.S. Revealed

… CHICAGO - -A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico pleaded guilty a year ago to participating in a vast … Chief Judge Ruben Castillo.  Zambada-Niebla was arrested in Mexico in 2009, and he was extradited to the United States … Cartel.  Zambada-Garcia is a fugitive believed to be in Mexico, and Guzman-Loera is in Mexican custody after being …
Arballo-Talamantes, Enrique
FUGITIVE

Enrique Arballo-Talamantes

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy: 21 USC 846
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Former Pharmacy Technician From Carlsbad Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Crime For Unlawful Possession Of Oxycodone

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … which seeks to reduce opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE - Amber Kay Otero, 31, of Carlsbad, N.M., …
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Indictment targeting massive international cocaine conspiracy unsealed with arrival in U.S. of extradited Colombian kingpin

… worth hundreds of millions of dollars from South America to Mexico for eventual sale in the United States. The … submarines and “go-fast” boats to move the narcotics to Mexico; and then used various means to smuggle the loads across the U.S.-Mexico border, with significant quantities of cocaine being …
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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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Midland Fentanyl Trafficker Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) …
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High-Ranking Gulf Cartel Leader Extradited To United States

… Gulf Cartel, has been extradited to the United States from Mexico to face drug conspiracy charges, announced … is part of a concerted, combined, and coordinated effort by Mexico and the United States to target the command and … the Gulf Cartel’s drug trafficking activities in Camargo, Mexico,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. …
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Fugitive Wanted For The Kidnapping And Murder Of A Federal Agent Is Added To The FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” List

… and work with our law enforcement partners here and in Mexico to develop the information that will lead to the … and was in charge of the cartel in Costa Rica and the U.S./Mexico border. In November of 1984, Mexican authorities … close to unlocking a million-dollar drug pipeline from Mexico to the U.S. in 1985. Before he was able to expose the …
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Federal Indictment Charges Eight With Participating In Taos County Heroin Trafficking And Money Laundering Ring

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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, N.M. - Last week, a federal grand jury …
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Thirteen Cibola County Residents Charged With Drug Trafficking And Firearms Offenses

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … Paso Field Division, and Chief Robert Shilling of the New Mexico State Police. Eleven of the 13 defendants were …
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Gulf Cartel Plaza Boss Heads To Federal Prison

… as the Gulf Cartel, headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, which imports, warehouses, transports and … within the United States, the money would be transported to Mexico to further the aims of this criminal enterprise. … 2010. San Fernando is an important thoroughfare in Northern Mexico and narcotics commonly pass through San Fernando on …
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Federal Law Enforcement in Chicago Seize Private Plane and 100 Kilograms of Cocaine

… Defendants Arrested as Part of Investigation of Suspected Mexico-to-Chicago Drug Pipeline CHICAGO — Robert J. Bell, … as part of an investigation that disrupted a suspected Mexico-to-Chicago drug pipeline and resulted in government … area earlier Wednesday via private plane from Toluca, Mexico, via Houston, Texas. The plane arrived at …
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Northwest Missouri Fentanyl Distributor Sentenced

… Missouri and to wire the proceeds of drug trafficking to Mexico. Lucas Ryan Coltrain, 24, was sentenced by U.S. … admitted that he wired approximately $10,000 to $15,000 to Mexico. Those wire transfers represented the proceeds from …
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DEA Recognizes Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

January 22, 2025
… strikes a blow to the crime element in Roswell, New Mexico Please don’t forget to show appreciation to your …
January 22, 2025
Villalobos-Salinas, Ignacio
FUGITIVE

Ignacio Villalobos-Salinas

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Violations of 21 USC 841846843and 18 USC 21956
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Assassin for Mexican Cartel Sentenced to Life in Prison

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … proceeds that were destined to be returned to the Cartel in Mexico. Agents and officers also seized hundreds of weapons …
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El Paso, Texas Man Sentenced To Twenty Years In Federal Prison For Heroin Trafficking Conviction

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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’s El Paso Division, Chief Pete N. Kassetas of the New Mexico State Police and Chief Terry Sisneros of the Raton …
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Member of Meth Conspiracy Sentenced to 25 Years for Narcotics Trafficking & International Money Laundering

… Texas, and South Carolina to traffic methamphetamine from Mexico into Southwest Virginia and then launder the monetary … accomplices who acted as a conduit from multiple sources in Mexico. In order to launder the funds, the conspirators … money in increments of $2,000 to designated individuals in Mexico as a finders-fee paid to co-conspirator Amy Deanna …
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38 Years For Lymon On Firearms, Heroin Trafficking Charges

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
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DEA Omaha Division feels effects of Sinaloa Cartel

… North Dakota and South Dakota from routes that begin in Mexico. “We’ve been able to trace large amounts of … and more established drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. Though its birthplace and stronghold is the Mexican … the United States through crossing points located along Mexico’s border with California, Arizona, New Mexico and …
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Cuban National Sentenced to Over 38 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking and Other Crimes

… Social Accounts X Robert “Eric” Castañeda 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) … a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Porvenir, Chihuahua, Mexico. Porvenir is across the Rio Grande River from the …