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Foreign National Extradited from Mexico to the United States to Face Fentanyl Trafficking Charges

… Foreign National Extradited from Mexico to the United States to Face Fentanyl Trafficking … Felipe Lopez Zamora, aka Gordo, 28, formerly of Tijuana, Mexico, and 13 co-defendants, charging them with a variety … on an extradition request, and he remained detained in Mexico pending his extradition. He was extradited from …
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Multi-Agency Enforcement Operation In New Mexico Significant Part Of Nationwide Synthetic Drug Takedown

… Multi-Agency Enforcement Operation In New Mexico Significant Part Of Nationwide Synthetic Drug … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … of the Albuquerque Fire Department. In announcing New Mexico’s role in yesterday’s nationwide takedown, U.S. …
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DEA Statement On The Mexico Arrest Of Knights Templar Cartel Leader “La Tuta”

… DEA Statement On The Mexico Arrest Of Knights Templar Cartel Leader “La Tuta” … Gomez-Martinez, a.k.a. "La Tuta," is another win for Mexico in the fight against brutal criminal cartels like the …
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Four Defendants Charged in Alleged Schemes to Transport Methamphetamine from Mexico and Distribute Drugs in San Jose

… in Alleged Schemes to Transport Methamphetamine from Mexico and Distribute Drugs in San Jose February 11, 2021 … in relation to a scheme to transport methamphetamine from Mexico to the San Jose area for distribution, announced … simultaneous investigations into the movement of drugs from Mexico to the streets of the San Jose area. “The charges …
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Cartel-linked Fugitive Wanted for Serious Crimes Returned to the United States from Mexico

… for Serious Crimes Returned to the United States from Mexico August 13, 2025 Houston Contact Info Contact Us (713) … people transferred to U.S authorities Aug. 12, pursuant to Mexico’s National Security Law, who were fugitives from …
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Texas Woman Arrested After 20 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at New Mexico Checkpoint

… Woman Arrested After 20 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at New Mexico Checkpoint June 26, 2025 El Paso Contact Info Contact … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Lead Defendant in Long Running Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Extradited to the United States from Mexico

… Trafficking Conspiracy Extradited to the United States from Mexico July 16, 2024 Phoenix Contact Info Contact Us … Paez-Quintero, a Mexican national, has been extradited from Mexico to the United States to face charges related to drug … to U.S authorities after an extradition proceeding in Mexico demonstrates the ongoing cooperation between the …
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Cartel-Linked Minnesotan Indicted for Operating a Mexico-Based Drug Trafficking Operation

… Cartel-Linked Minnesotan Indicted for Operating a Mexico-Based Drug Trafficking Operation August 06, 2024 … agencies in which 15 individuals were charged in a Mexico-based drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed … Within weeks of his arrest, Ward fled to Jalisco, Mexico, where he met up with Mexican and American drug …
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Forty Individuals Facing Drug Trafficking And Firearms Charges As The Result Of A Multi-Agency Investigation In Southeastern New Mexico

… Result Of A Multi-Agency Investigation In Southeastern New Mexico January 24, 2014 El Paso Contact Info Contact Us … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Driver from New Mexico sentenced for 40 pounds of meth hidden in fuel tank

… Driver from New Mexico sentenced for 40 pounds of meth hidden in fuel tank … Springfield - (417) 888-9800 WICHITA, KAN . – A New Mexico man was sentenced today to nine years in federal … Challenger he was driving. Ramirez had driven from New Mexico with orders to deliver the drugs to Wichita. He kept …
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Marijuana Trafficker Receives 7 Year Prison Sentence In Michigan After Fleeing To Mexico For 3 Years

… 7 Year Prison Sentence In Michigan After Fleeing To Mexico For 3 Years March 30, 2015 Detroit Contact Info … of marijuana after fleeing from justice and hiding in Mexico for about three years. U.S. District Judge Robert … on April 20, 2011, to enter his guilty plea. He fled to Mexico instead. He was arrested upon returning to the United …
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Multi-Agency Investigation Dismantles Marijuana Distribution Ring Operating In Southeastern New Mexico And West Texas

… Marijuana Distribution Ring Operating In Southeastern New Mexico And West Texas April 27, 2015 El Paso Contact Info … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Owner of Oakland Money Services Business Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Laundering Drug Proceeds to Mexico

… to 18 Months in Prison for Laundering Drug Proceeds to Mexico March 19, 2024 San Francisco Contact Info Contact Us … large amounts of cash from drug dealers and wiring it to Mexico, disguising it to look like routine remittances. The … laundering it through his business through wire payments to Mexico,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick D. …
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Law Enforcement Cooperation Between United States and Mexico Leads to Mexican Takedown of Significant Fentanyl Trafficker

… Law Enforcement Cooperation Between United States and Mexico Leads to Mexican Takedown of Significant Fentanyl … bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico resulted in Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office,  Fiscalía General de la …
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Wife of Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer in El Paso extradited to the United States from Mexico

… Officer in El Paso extradited to the United States from Mexico October 04, 2018 El Paso Contact Info Contact Us … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Several Charged With Trafficking Marijuana For Cartel Members In Mexico

… Charged With Trafficking Marijuana For Cartel Members In Mexico December 16, 2016 Houston Contact Info Contact Us …
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Eighty-Four Defendants Charged With Drug Trafficking Offenses As A Result Of DEA "MET" Operation In Roswell, New Mexico

… Offenses As A Result Of DEA "MET" Operation In Roswell, New Mexico September 23, 2011 El Paso Contact Info Contact Us … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Citizen of Mexico Residing in Bakersfield Sentenced to over 10 Years in Prison for Distributing Methamphetamine and Fentanyl

… Citizen of Mexico Residing in Bakersfield Sentenced to over 10 Years in … Wilfredo Medina-Perez, 34, a native and citizen of Sinaloa, Mexico, residing in Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 10 … Uriel Ivan Portillo, 35, also a native and citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to three years and four months in …
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Flight Attendant, Two Bank Employees Charged in Federal Indictment of Alleged Mexico-Based Drug Trafficking Organization

… Two Bank Employees Charged in Federal Indictment of Alleged Mexico-Based Drug Trafficking Organization May 21, 2024 … have been charged in a federal indictment that accuses a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization of moving … from the Midwest to the southern part of the U.S. and into Mexico, the indictment states. The traffickers also …
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11 Defendants Sentenced for Their Role in a Conspiracy to Traffic Fentanyl from the Mexico Border to Idaho

… for Their Role in a Conspiracy to Traffic Fentanyl from the Mexico Border to Idaho April 16, 2025 Seattle Contact Info … In July 2023, the investigation expanded to include Lee’s Mexico-based drug supplier and other co-conspirators. The … conspirators helped traffic fentanyl from the United States/Mexico border to distribute in Idaho. Additional …
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High ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel arraigned in Chicago after extradition from Mexico

… Sinaloa Cartel arraigned in Chicago after extradition from Mexico June 16, 2020 Chicago Contact Info Contact Us (312) … Jose, "MONIKER," and "CHERRY." 5 8 198 1967 Quila, Sinaloa, Mexico Fontana, CA W350575541 California Central Armed and … A former high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico was arraigned today on federal drug charges following …
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Alleged Drug Kingpins Charged With Multi-State Operation That Imported 1,000 Kilograms Of Heroin From Mexico Into The United States

… Operation That Imported 1,000 Kilograms Of Heroin From Mexico Into The United States June 04, 2015 Philadelphia … a multi-state heroin trafficking organization with ties to Mexico. The charges, which include conducting a continuing … has manufactured and imported heroin from its operation in Mexico and supplied other DTOs in Philadelphia, Pa., Camden, …
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Methamphetamine Trafficker Who Cut His Ankle Bracelet and Fled to Mexico during Trial Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

… Trafficker Who Cut His Ankle Bracelet and Fled to Mexico during Trial Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison June 20, … fled during his 2009 trial and was arrested years later in Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 13, 2018 for smuggling 66 pounds of pure methamphetamine from Mexico and distributing it throughout San Diego.  According …
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Two Surburban Chicago Men Convicted in Federal Investigation That Dismantled Mexico-to-Chicago Drug Pipeline

… Men Convicted in Federal Investigation That Dismantled Mexico-to-Chicago Drug Pipeline August 09, 2022 Chicago … charges as part of a federal investigation that disrupted a Mexico-to-Chicago drug pipeline. Sheldon Morales and Eduardo Santana conspired with a supplier in Mexico and two inmates in a prison in Texas to traffic …
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Federal Court In New Mexico Dismisses Drug Addict’s Lawsuit Against United States And DEA Agents

… Federal Court In New Mexico Dismisses Drug Addict’s Lawsuit Against United States … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Top Lieutenant and Head of Security for Rafael Caro Quintero Extradited from Mexico to Face Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Charges

… Head of Security for Rafael Caro Quintero Extradited from Mexico to Face Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Charges … offenses. The defendant, a Mexican citizen, was arrested in Mexico on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the … District of New York and subsequently extradited from Mexico to the United States on March 1, 2023. Quintero …
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Federal Jury Convicts Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico Associate of Murdering Federal Witness, Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

… Federal Jury Convicts Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico Associate of Murdering Federal Witness, Drug … Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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37 Mexican Nationals Wanted for Serious Crimes Transferred to the United States from Mexico, Including Leaders of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

… for Serious Crimes Transferred to the United States from Mexico, Including Leaders of Foreign Terrorist Organizations … yesterday evening it took into custody 37 fugitives from Mexico facing a range of federal criminal charges around the …
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Defendants Sentenced In Federal Court For Attempting To Send Firearms To Mexico Defendants Planned To Transport Assault Rifles Across Border

… In Federal Court For Attempting To Send Firearms To Mexico Defendants Planned To Transport Assault Rifles Across … semi-automatic assault rifles that they intended to send to Mexico. RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ was also sentenced for being an … who was also involved in the scheme to send firearms to Mexico, was sentenced on the charge that he was an illegal …
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Two Members of Mexico Connected Drug Trafficking Group Sentenced to Prison

… Two Members of Mexico Connected Drug Trafficking Group Sentenced to Prison … – Two members of a drug trafficking ring with ties to Mexico were sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in … be deported following his prison term. He is a citizen of Mexico. Alex Ortiz served as stash house operator for the …