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DEA Administrator names Greg Millard as SAC of the El Paso Division

… 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) … as the new SAC of the El Paso Division, which serves New Mexico and West Texas. Millard came to El Paso in October …
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Former Corrections Officer Arraigned on Drug Trafficking and Contraband 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) … N.M. – Dennis Dean Garcia, Jr., 34, of Grants, New Mexico, was arraigned in federal court on Feb. 2 on one …
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Ready Pharmacy agrees to $400,000 settlement relating to Controlled Substances Act claims

… 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) … – Fred J. Federici, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, has announced that Ready Pharmacy has agreed to a …
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Regional Drug Distributor and His Assistant Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute Drugs

… RODRIGUEZ.jpg TAMPA, Fla. - Adan Barajas Maldonado (35, Mexico) was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring … Texas, after they had been smuggled into the country from Mexico. They then drove the drugs to Florida, delivered them … customers, collected payments, wired drug profits to Mexico, and recruited others to wire money as well to evade …
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Mexican Fugitive and Co-Conspirator Arrested on U.S. Drug, Money Laundering Charges

… – The owner of a pharmaceutical wholesale business based in Mexico City and a co-conspirator have been arrested in the … and operated a pharmaceutical wholesale business based in Mexico City , Mexico . The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… 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) … El Paso Division, which covers West Texas and all of New Mexico, brought in 10,728.64 pounds during the event held in …
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DEA and partners announce results of 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 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) … drugs.” “We thank everyone in El Paso, West Texas, and New Mexico who brought us their medications last weekend,” said …
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DEA to hold 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 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) … Take Back locations throughout El Paso, West Texas and New Mexico. When the public brings us their unwanted medications …
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El Paso Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Cocaine Trafficking

… 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) … rounds of ammunition intended for illegal exportation into Mexico. That ammunition was seized by FBI in July 2019 as …
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San Jose man sentenced to 102 months for conspiracy to distribute drugs and other crimes

… the police. Torres further admitted that he is a citizen of Mexico, who was deported from the United States to Mexico in January 2011 and again in September 2016. Following his second removal to Mexico, Torres admitted that he re-entered the United States …
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Transnational drug trafficker sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine and for money laundering

… laundering offenses. After Ivan Calvillo was murdered in Mexico in December 2015, Casillas took over operations for … the head of the transnational trafficking organization in Mexico. The organization was responsible for the monthly … the Drug Enforcement Administration in Boston, Seattle, Mexico City and Vancouver; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police …
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DEA Brings In Record Number Of Unused Pill During 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 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) … El Paso Division, which covers West Texas and all of New Mexico, brought in 10,728.64 pounds during this event. For …
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Mexican Money Launderer Sentenced In International Cocaine Conspiracy

… ALBANY, N.Y. - Eduardo Nunez Serna, 44, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for … this money to a cocaine supplier based in Acapulco, Mexico.  On October 27, 2015, law enforcement searched Nunez … the Albany District Office and DEA offices in Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, …
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Alamogordo Woman Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Fraudulently Obtain Prescription Drugs

… 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) … El Paso Division of the DEA with assistance from the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s …
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El Paso, Texas Man Sentenced For Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Conviction

… 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) … at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 54 in New Mexico when Border Patrol agents boarded the bus to conduct …
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Six Mexican Men Among Those To Plead Guilty To Large-Scale Marijuana Growing Conspiracy In Ohio

… pleading guilty were: Manuel Castrejon-Sanchez, 37, of Mexico Genaro Gallegos-Gamillo, 21, of Mexico Hugo Ayala, 41, of Columbus, Ohio Six other men … Vilchiz-Garcia, 27, and Lusiano Garcia-Sanchez, 25, both of Mexico. All 11 men were arrested on September 21, 2010, and …
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Southern District Of Texas Investigation And Personnel Win National Award

… Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, Eagle Pass, Nuevo Laredo and Mexico City; agents from Homeland Security (HSI) in Laredo; … with obliterated serial numbers that were destined for Mexico. In addition, as a direct result law enforcement … 54 have been convicted, two are awaiting extradition from Mexico and nine are fugitives. The investigation also led to …
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Federal Jury Convicts El Paso Drug Trafficker

… 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) … in Sierra Blanca, Texas, Abilene, Texas, Alamogordo, New Mexico and Pratt County, Kansas, totaling over 3,300 …
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Detention Ordered For El Paso Defendant Charged In Cocaine/heroin Trafficking Indictment

… 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) … targeted a drug trafficking organization based in Juarez, Mexico. The organization smuggled large quantities of heroin …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Collect Record Number Of Unused Pills As Part Of Its 14th Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 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) … El Paso Division, which covers West Texas and all of New Mexico, bettered its total from Take Back 13 held in April …
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Southern Indiana Indictments Charge Alleged Marijuana Traffickers

… quantities of the drug from sources in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, for subsequent distribution in Southern Indiana. The … was seized as it was smuggled across the United States/Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, on December 10, 2010. On … of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana over several years, from Mexico to Southern Indiana and Kentucky. If convicted, they …
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Greenville Drug Trafficker Sentenced In Operation “No Quarter”

… but throughout North Carolina, the United States and Mexico. These DTO's are responsible for the importation of … the related remittance of illegal drug proceeds back into Mexico. The investigation spanned ten years and five North … and numerous other DEA offices in the United States and Mexico; the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal …
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Kinston Man Sentenced In Operation “No Quarter”

… but throughout North Carolina, the United States and Mexico. These DTOs are responsible for the importation of … the related remittance of illegal drug proceeds back into Mexico. The investigation spanned ten years and five North … and numerous other DEA offices in the United States and Mexico; the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal …
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Pamlico County Drug Trafficker Sentenced In Operation "No Quarter"

… but throughout North Carolina, the United States and Mexico. These DTO's are responsible for the importation of … the related remittance of illegal drug proceeds back into Mexico. The investigation spanned ten years and five North … and numerous other DEA offices in the United States and Mexico; the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced In Operation "No Quarter"

… but throughout North Carolina, the United States and Mexico. These DTO's are responsible for the importation of … the related remittance of illegal drug proceeds back into Mexico. The investigation spanned ten years and five North … and numerous other DEA offices in the United States and Mexico; the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal …
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Johnston County Trafficker Sentenced For Cocaine Conspiracy

… were destined for a cocaine trafficking organization in Mexico. On April 16, 2013, Arrollo-Silva met with a DEA … but throughout North Carolina, the United States and Mexico. These organizations are responsible for the … the related remittance of illegal drug proceeds back into Mexico. The investigation of this case was conducted by the …
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Mexican Drug Kingpin Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison For Trafficking Black Tar Heroin

… Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, a/k/a “Cuate,” 41, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was handed down a 135-month sentence, followed by a … all aspects of his drug operation, from production in Mexico, to smuggling the narcotics across the border, to … unsealed after Mexican authorities arrested Castro-Rocha in Mexico, on May 30, 2010, pursuant to extradition proceedings …
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Three East Hartford Residents Involved In Drug Trafficking Ring Are Sentenced

… as “Guerro” and “Guate,” 29, of East Hartford, formerly of Mexico, also was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment, … - , also known as Ricardo Fernandez, 21, a citizen of Mexico last residing in East Hartford, was sentenced to … conspiracy to distribute cocaine.  He will be deported to Mexico. More than 20 individuals have been charged with …
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Queen Creek Man Found Guilty Of Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine And Marijuana

… that will no longer be available to aid drug cartels from Mexico.” The evidence at trial showed that Chrzaszcz was … dollars to Arizona for transfer to the sources of supply in Mexico. Additionally, on August 9, 2009, New Mexico State Police stopped two individual truck drivers and …
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International Narcotics Distributor Pleads Guilty To Multiple Narcotics And Money Laundering Conspiracies

… and more than a thousand kilograms of marijuana, from Mexico into the United States and distributed those … of proceeds from the sale of those narcotics back to Mexico, in a way that concealed the true source of the … SALVADOR JIMENEZ URIBE Age: 50 Residence: Guadalajara, Mexico EDNY Docket No. 12-CR-(RJD) On …