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Five Santa Fe Residents Arrested On Federal Oxycodone 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) … Raymond J. Rael of the Santa Fe Police Department, and New Mexico State Police Lieutenant W. Troy Weisler, Commander of …
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Large Metro Denver cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking organization members indicted and arrested

… those indicted, 18 have been arrested (8 of them in Mexico, one in New Mexico, 2 in El Paso) as of the time this press release was … DTOs obtained cocaine from multiple sources in Chihuahua, Mexico. The cocaine crossed the U.S./Mexico border between …
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Federal Jury Convicts El Paso Man 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) … Dalia Valencia, and others to kill Sagredo while in Mexico in order to prevent her from testifying in the State …
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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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The Drug Enforcement Administration, Colorado Attorney General’s Office and the West Metro Drug Task Force dismantle international cocaine trafficking ring

… drug trafficking network that transported cocaine from Mexico into the United States to a distribution network in … 4, the DEA Charleston SC Resident Office, the DEA Juarez Mexico Resident Office, and the DEA Beijing, China Country … of cocaine from various sources from the Republic of Mexico into the U.S.  At times, the group utilized …
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Seven Arrested On Federal Drug Conspiracy Charges

… U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as the New Mexico State Police Tactical Team, Roosevelt County, New Mexico Sheriff’s Office, and the Region V Metro Drug Task Force, based in New Mexico. Most of the defendants were arrested in the Northern …
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DEA’S 10th Prescription Drug Take-Back Continues To Be Popular In Our Local Communities

… 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) … - (432) 686-4085 EL PASO - Hundreds from West Texas and New Mexico discarded 9,857 pounds of unused, expired, or …
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Former Gulf Cartel Plaza Bosses Receive Long Prison Sentences

… criminal syndicates to maintain control of the plazas in Mexico. Both received enhancements for importation of … and dedicated effort by HSI Brownville and Attache Mexico special agents, RGV Sector Border Patrol agents, … impacting public safety on both sides of our border with Mexico." Zuniga-Hernandez served as plaza boss of the El …
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DEA And USPIS Investigation Leads To Indictment Of 28 Individuals For Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute Marijuana

… in the districts of Puerto Rico, California, Florida and Mexico, using the United States Postal (USPS). According to … suppliers would purchase marijuana, originally from Mexico in bulk so that it could be packaged and sent to … a drug trafficking organization from its root: starting in Mexico, where the marijuana was bought then transported …
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Sinaloa-based narcotics distributor designated under the Kingpin Act for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine in Oregon

… in trafficking fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest. Efrain Mendivil Figueroa, 41, of Sinaloa, Mexico, has been charged with conspiracy to distribute … raw opium gum and heroin sources of supply in northern Mexico, and increasingly a major distributor of fentanyl. …
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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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Fugitive Gets Forty-One Month Sentence For Transporting Drug Proceeds

… of heroin sales in the United States, across the border to Mexico. Rivera was given the money by co-defendant Luis … heroin dealer, to deliver to Garcia Hernandez's contacts in Mexico. Rivera was stopped at the U.S.-Mexican border at … intended to transport the money through the border and into Mexico, and he knew that the money represented the proceeds …
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Perfume Store Owner Charged With Laundering Millions Of Dollars For Mexican Narcotics Trafficking Organizations

… multiple retail perfume stores located on the United States-Mexico border, for his alleged participation in an … in the United States and ultimately returning them to Mexico. Datta was arrested on January 15, 2011, after … in Manhattan federal court today: Narcotics traffickers in Mexico and other countries in which narcotics are grown, …
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Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Life Imprisonment

… 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) … 47-year-old Rigoberto Melero Aguirre, a citizen of Mexico, to life in federal prison. In addition, Judge …
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More Than Fifty Pounds Of Methamphetamine Seized During Four Drug Interdiction Investigations

… 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) … Bus Station and Amtrak Train Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The fourth case arose out of a traffic stop on …
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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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DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting

… 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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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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Approximately 300,000 Fentanyl Pills and Five Kilograms of Powdered Fentanyl Recovered from Vehicle’s Gas Tank

… cartels, like the Sinaloa cartel, smuggle fentanyl from Mexico to major cities like New York for street … from the Ford Expedition is believed to have originated in Mexico. The investigation revealed that the vehicle has crossed the U.S.-Mexico border multiple times. This case fits a trafficking …
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The History of Red Ribbon Week

September 29, 2026
… (Kiki) S. Camarena was born on July 26, 1947, in Mexicali, Mexico. He graduated from Calexico High School in Calexico, … Four years later, Kiki received transfer orders to Mexico, where he would work out of the Guadalajara Resident Office. For more than four years in Mexico, Kiki remained on the trail of the country's biggest …
September 29, 2026
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Indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charging an associate of a Sinaloa Cartel leader with drug-trafficking conspiracy and firearms crimes

… - (914) 682-6256 Ismael Quintero Arellanes was captured in Mexico on January 29, 2020 NEW YORK – A superseding … 2018. Quintero Arellanes was captured in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, on Jan. 29, 2020. The United States intends to seek … Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in February 1985. As an associate of the Caro …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Enters 15th Year of Removing Unneeded Medications from Communities

… 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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Las Cruces psychiatrist pleads guilty to unlawfully prescribing opioids

… 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) … ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Mark Beale, 75, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on March 25 in federal court to …
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California Man Sentenced To 75 Months In Prison For Role In Large-Scale Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… name. Ayala had received the drugs from co-conspirators in Mexico and admitted intending to sell them to an … rings with ties to Alaska, California, Texas, Arizona, and Mexico. To date, the following individuals have been …      drug money out of the United States and into Mexico;  Genaro Gutierrez-Reyes, of California, previously …
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Phoenix News 2010

July 15, 2021
… Phoenix News 2010 December 15, 2010 Fugitive Extradited From Mexico to Face Trial November 26, 2010 Terry Goddard … Target Indicted for Heroin Trafficking, Arrested in Mexico May 20, 2010 Federal Law Enforcement Memorial Service … 7, 2010 Man Sentenced for Smuggling Marijuana Near the Mexico Border …
July 15, 2021
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Bakersfield Man Pleads Guilty to Transporting over 100 Pounds of Methamphetamine

… on Dec. 5, 2020, Newell drove from Bakersfield to Mexico to obtain and smuggle narcotics from Mexico to Bakersfield, which he agreed to do for $7,000. On … Newell drove to the San Ysidro port of entry crossing from Mexico into the United States. Law enforcement officers …
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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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Five Indicted In International Narcotics And Kidnapping Conspiracy: Mexican Source Of Supply

… for large shipments of narcotics to be transported from Mexico and sold in New York City and elsewhere in the … that Pagan maintained contact with drug suppliers in Mexico linked to the Sinaloa Cartel. Pagan arranged for … two shipments of cocaine from a new source of supply in Mexico totaling 11 (24 lbs.). On December 19, Pagan told …
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Guatemalan National Indicted on International Cocaine Trafficking and Maritime Smuggling Charges

… of Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and elsewhere.  “DEA and our law enforcement partners … Guard; HSI Attaché Guatemala City, Guatemala; HSI Attaché Mexico City Mexico; Department of Justice’s Office of International …
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Man from Albuquerque sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking and firearm possession

… 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) … ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Waldo Nahle, 37, of Albuquerque, New Mexico was sentenced in federal court in Santa Fe, New …