Torres-Mota, Eliseo
FUGITIVE

Eliseo Torres-Mota

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Mexico
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Key Player In Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced

… Paul Gastellum-Chavez, aka Juan Chavez Rodriguez, 57, of Mexico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by U. S. … for transporting multi-ton quantities of marijuana from Mexico into the United States. “This sentencing sends a … shipments of marijuana into the United States from Mexico via ports of entry located in Arizona using tractor …
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Former gulf cartel comandante receives significant prison sentence

… K. Patrick. Luis Ivan Nino-Duenez, El Control, Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty June 3, 2014.   Today, Senior U.S. … criminal syndicates to maintain control of the plazas in Mexico. He further received enhancements for importation of … of cocaine, marijuana and other illicit narcotics within Mexico and into the United States. They are the lead …
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Federal Inmate Sentenced To Eight Years For Conspiring To Import Marijuana While In Federal Prison

… time in federal prison, arranged shipment of marijuana from Mexico to northwest Wisconsin MADISON, Wis. - ― John W. … announced that Humberto Fierro-Rascon, 41, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. … arranged to smuggle a shipment of marijuana from Mexico to Christopher Johnson in northwest Wisconsin. …
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Former Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to More Than 12 Years on Bribery, Firearms, and Narcotics Charges

… conspired to import narcotics into the United States from Mexico, from January 8, 2018, until his arrest on September … $1.2 million, which he transported to the United States-Mexico border and then handed off to other individuals so the cash could be smuggled into Mexico. In exchange for his role in the narcotics …
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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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High-Ranking Member of Los Zetas Cartel Sentenced in Eastern District of Texas to a Term of Life Imprisonment

… poison into the United States or fuel violence back in Mexico.” “This lengthy sentence is the culmination of years … quantities of cocaine between Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and Eagle Pass, Texas on behalf of the Los Zetas … was smuggled from the United States back to Chavarria in Mexico by secreting the cash in washers, dryers, …
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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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Former Mexican Governor Extradited To The Southern District Of Texas

… Ruvalcaba, the former governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and a former PRI Party candidate for Mexican … along the southern border between the United States and Mexico directly across from Brownsville and Laredo. … also collected bribes from commercial operations in Mexico, according to the indictment. Cano operated …
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Mexican National Found Guilty of Importing and Possessing Marijuana

… 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) … Rio-Molina, 20; and Jose Mirey Trueba-Molina, 19, all from Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with …
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Operation Boyztown Results in Rare Life Sentence for Methamphetamine Distributor

… distribution organization with direct links to Sinaloa, Mexico; Phoenix, Arizona; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sioux … in Arizona, brokered methamphetamine transactions between Mexico-based cartel operatives and local drug traffickers in … the urgent need to control our international border with Mexico and the need to remove criminal aliens from the …
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Chase Smothermon sentenced to 45 years for abducting, torturing and killing one victim, brutally beating a second

… 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) … judge sentenced Chase Smothermon, 32, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to 45 years in prison for abducting and assaulting …
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Meth Distributors Sentenced to Prison and Forfeiture of Earnings

… in a conspiracy to transfer funds from the United States to Mexico to promote the drug-trafficking conspiracy. Roman … conspiracy, then sent several wire transfers to Mexico. Roman, who was on probation at the time of this … marijuana after he smuggled 38 kilograms of marijuana from Mexico into the United States. Roman also has prior felony …
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Last Of The Arellano-Felix Brothers Sentenced

… on this community and the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. According to court documents, the Arellano-Felix … (AFO) moved hundreds of tons of cocaine and marijuana from Mexico and Colombia into the U.S. and made hundreds of … and arresting those people trafficking drugs across the US/Mexico border has not wavered but has only grown stronger. …
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Alleged Members Of Grant County Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Arrested On Federal 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) … this community safe.” “Grant County, like so many of New Mexico's historic, scenic areas, offers lots for residents …
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Cartel Leader Heads to Prison for Over $2M Drug Seizures

… B. Lowery. Juan Manuel Salazar Alvarez, 29, Michoacan, Mexico, pleaded guilty Nov. 5, 2020. Today, U.S. District … cartel’s large-scale operations functioning in Tamaulipas, Mexico. It comprised of couriers, stash house operators and … Manuel Enrique Ayala Rodriguez, 45, both of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, were each sentenced to 192 months, while Giovani …
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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación

… guns that clearly were intended to be sent to the cartel in Mexico,” said United States Attorney Nick Hanna. “This level … 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 …
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Carlsbad Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking

… 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) … N.M. – Jermaine Ryan Alvarez, 38, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court today to nine years …
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Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Federal Prison for Laundering Drug Trafficking Proceeds

… illegal narcotics proceeds on behalf of drug traffickers in Mexico. In the Summer and Fall of 2017 and the Spring of … schemed with other individuals in the United States and Mexico to facilitate the receipt of approximately $1.5 … the laundered money to be sent back to drug traffickers in Mexico. In November 2017, Han attempted to receive …
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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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DEA El Paso to Host Family Summit

… 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) … agencies want to hear from families in West Texas and New Mexico as they share about their loved ones, but also assist …
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Leader Of Guadalajara And Sinaloa Cartels Charged With Conspiring To Murder A DEA Agent As Part Of A Continuing Criminal Enterprise

… grateful appreciation to the DEA Offices in Long Island and Mexico City, the United States Department of State, the … Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in February 1985. Caro Quintero is also charged with … from these drug sales were then transported back to Mexico. As the leader of the criminal enterprise, Caro …
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La Familia Michoacan Drug Cartel Leader Sentenced To 43 Years In Federal Prison

… run concurrently. Rueda-Medina was arrested in Michoacàn, Mexico on July 11, 2009, and was extradited to the United … through border checkpoints near Laredo, Texas and Tijuana, Mexico. Rueda-Medina was arrested on July 11, 2009, by … LFM used a sophisticated network of individuals in Mexico and the United States to distribute the …
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Federal Indictment Charges 19 in Alleged Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine

… large quantities of methamphetamine from their suppliers in Mexico into and throughout the Inland Empire. The 19-count … purchased methamphetamine from their suppliers in Mexico as well as Los Angeles and Riverside counties. Other … 46.6 pounds (21.2 kilograms) of methamphetamine from Mexico across the U.S port of entry at Calexico and into …
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Alleged Drug Traffickers Indicted

… distributed more than 500 kilograms of heroin produced by a Mexico-based heroin distribution organization.  The drugs … and supervised the transportation and delivery from Mexico to Philadelphia where he oversaw distribution of … laundered transmitted, and transported to the leadership in Mexico using various money laundering techniques.  It is …
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Three traffickers sentenced for smuggling meth, heroin and cocaine for cartel

… Gustavo Arocha, 47, Uriel Lopez, 45, both of Michoacan, Mexico, pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2021, and Dec. 7, 2020, … to bring 100 kilograms of cocaine into the country from Mexico. In handing down the prison terms, Judge Saldana … the organization and was connected to a source of supply in Mexico with potential buyers in the United States. The Drug …
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DEA/FBI Set Up New Tip Lines

… California areas as well as Northern Baja California, Mexico. For the better part of the last twenty years the … well as in one of the largest cities within the Republic of Mexico, Tijuana, Baja California.   In 1995, the  DEA , FBI  … most notably;  Benjamin Arellano Felix, arrested in Puebla, Mexico in 2002, and extradited to the United States in 2012, …
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Attorney General William P. Barr Joins DEA Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea to Announce results of Operation Crystal Shield

… 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) … by DEA before reaching the streets of West Texas and New Mexico WASHINGTON – Today, Attorney General William P. Barr …
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Head Of The Quintero Drug Trafficking Enterprise Sentenced To Federal Prison

… TX - Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 69, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, has been sentenced to 222 months in prison and … multi-ton loads of marijuana to the United States from Mexico, using specially altered natural gas tanker trucks, … Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice and Mexico’s Procuraduria General De La (Office of the General …
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Head Of The Quintero Drug Trafficking Enterprise Convicted

… TX - Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 69, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit (RICO), … spanned from Colombia and Peru in South America, to Mexico, the Cayman Islands and to the United States, between … Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice and Mexico’s Procuraduria General De La (Office of the General …