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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 …
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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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Former Corrections Officer Arraigned on Drug Trafficking and Contraband 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) … 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

… 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) … – 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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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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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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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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Roswell Woman Pleads Guilty To Federal Methamphetamine 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) … Police Department, Chaves County Sheriff’s Office and New Mexico State Police.  Twenty-one of the defendants were …
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Six Arrested In El Paso/Alpine Portion Of Project Delirium

… 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) … In El Paso, 43-year-old Amado Erives-Montes, a resident of Mexico, and 42-year-old Jesus Lorenzo Sanchez of El Paso, …
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Thirteen Facing Federal Charges For Trafficking Heroin

… 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) … States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico announced that thirteen defendants have been charged …
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Fifteen Men Charged With Trafficking Drugs In Bernalillo And Santa Fe Counties

… 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) … the result of an 18-month investigation by the DEA and New Mexico DEA Region I HIDTA Task Force into a drug trafficking …
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Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy After Officers Seize $1 Million Worth of Cocaine in I-70 Traffic Stop

… County, Mo. Luis Gerardo Nieto-Acosta, 37, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stephen R. … City, and Jose Eduardo Acosta-Bermejo, 29, a citizen of Mexico, of Bethany, Okla., also have pleaded guilty to their …
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Money Courier Sentenced For Money Laundering

… Kenneth Magidson. Erika Alvarez, 39, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, previously pleaded guilty for her role in the money … trafficking organization that received marijuana loads from Mexico and arranged to transport the marijuana to the Dallas … to Trejo Nava who then had the proceeds transported to Mexico. Between Oct. 6-7, 2011, Trejo-Nava arranged for the …
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DEA: Plea Of Chino Antrax Cripples Violent Arm Of Sinaloa Cartel

… Chino Antrax admitted that as a high-level member of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel he and his co-conspirators … and countries, importing large quantities of narcotics into Mexico from Asia and Central and South American countries … the Sinaloa Cartel has inflicted on innocent people both in Mexico and the United States,” says DEA San Diego Special …
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Nogales, Sonora police officer sentenced to five years following DEA OCDETF Strike Force investigation

… of Omar Moreno-Miranda, 33, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, to 60 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by five … earlier this year. The DEA investigation into a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization began in October … was employed as a police officer in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and was in contact with an undercover agent …
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Suburban Chicago Man Convicted of Laundering Drug Proceeds for Mexican Traffickers

… illegal narcotics proceeds on behalf of drug traffickers in Mexico. In the summer and fall of 2017, Huazhi Han schemed with an individual in Mexico to facilitate the receipt of more than $1 million in … the laundered money to be sent back to the traffickers in Mexico. In November 2017, Han attempted to receive …
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Senior Sinaloa Cartel leader extradited to the United States

… the commitment of the United States and our partners in Mexico to the pursuit of drug traffickers who seek to flood … Attorney Terwilliger.  “With thanks to the authorities in Mexico for their efforts in facilitating this extradition so …  The U.S. Department of Justice thanks the Government of Mexico for its assistance in this case.  This case is also …
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Norcross Cousins Sentenced for Operating Meth Lab

… all of whom had illegally entered the United States from Mexico, utilized a family home in Norcross less than 200 … green cellophane.  Roberto Arroyo-Garcia, 39, of Guerrero, Mexico, who was previously deported on two separate … he pleaded guilty.  Zury Brito-Arroyo, 28, of Guerrero, Mexico, was sentenced on February 25, 2020, to 21 years in …
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Head of the Gulf Cartel Jose Alfredo Cardenas-Martinez Indicted

… Nov. 10, 2021. Cardenas-Martinez is currently in custody in Mexico pending litigation on the U.S.’s extradition request. … The Gulf Cartel is headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Cardenas-Martinez is charged in an international … office in Harlingen, in coordination with our Attaché in Mexico and other partners, we were able to gather …
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5 Charged For Possession Of Over 2 Tons Of Cocaine In Maritime Enforcement Operation

… like to thank our law enforcement partners in the U.S, Mexico, and Colombia for their diligent work and … and then trying to outrun authorities in the waters off of Mexico. I want to thank our law enforcement partners, who … Aircraft was on routine patrol off the western coast of Mexico and approximately 590 nautical miles south of Mexico. …
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DEA Releases 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment

… seized. Border restrictions between the United States and Mexico, brought on due to the pandemic, have increased the … of bulk currency from the United States across the SWB into Mexico. As a result, large amounts of U.S. currency are being held along the U.S. side, awaiting transport to Mexico. • California had the second greatest amount of …
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Eddy County Resident Sentenced To 168 Months 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) … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
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Cartels and Gangs in Chicago

June 01, 2017
… most notably the Sinaloa Cartel. Illicit drugs flow from Mexico to Chicago via a loosely associated network of … levels of violent crime in both the United States and Mexico. Of particular concern is the trafficking and …
June 01, 2017
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Mexican National Found Guilty of Marijuana Distribution

… 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) … for sentencing in March 2022. Six co-defendants, all from Mexico, have pleaded guilty in this case. Jesus Olegario …
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DEA Statement On The Arrest Of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera

… "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was a significant achievement for Mexico and a major step forward in our shared fight against … of the alleged head of the Sinaloa Cartel.  The DEA and Mexico have a strong partnership and we will continue to support Mexico in its efforts to improve security for its citizens …
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Truck Driver Charged in Attempt to Smuggle Over Half-a-Ton of Cocaine Into the United States

… - 571-324-7324 TUCSON, Ariz. – Oswaldo Lopez-Escobar, of Mexico, was charged by complaint on October 5, 2023, for … applied for admission into the United States from Mexico at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales. During a …
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Member Of A Major Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy Is Sentenced To Serve 18 Years In Federal Prison On Conspiracy And Money Laundering Convictions

… month.  The methamphetamine was imported into the U.S. from Mexico, and it was delivered to the Dallas area for … his customers and returned money to his supply source in Mexico.  Cisneros admitted sending money to Mexico via couriers to conceal the nature, location, source, …
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Twenty-One Suspected El Paso Gang Affiliates Arrested for Alleged Drug Trafficking, Firearm 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) …
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Mexican National Found at Massive Merced County Marijuana Cultivation Operation Sentenced for Firearm Charge

… — Roberto Carlos Leon-Garcia (Leon), 49, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for being … Leon had previously been removed from the United States to Mexico on three occasions. This case was the product of an …
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Guatemalan National is Extradited on International Cocaine Trafficking and Maritime Smuggling Charges

… in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and elsewhere, knowing and intending that the cocaine … Guard; HSI Attaché Guatemala City, Guatemala; HSI Attaché Mexico City Mexico; Department of Justice, Office of International …