PRESS RELEASE

Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Distribute Meth and Receiving Bribes

February 01, 2024
… and controlled substances to enter the United States from Mexico. Hernandez also admitted to moving the drugs from the … Dr. Joseph V. Cuffari. Hernandez admitted to taking Mexico-based smugglers on a tour of the US/Mexico border, identifying the best locations to sneak …
February 01, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 18, 2024
… 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 …
January 18, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 17, 2024
… 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 …
January 17, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 17, 2024
… 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 …
January 17, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Malas Manas Transnational Criminal Organization Leadership Indicted on Charges of Human Smuggling and Drug Trafficking

December 14, 2023
… and Jesus Armando Gonzalez-Villela, citizens of Mexico, for Conspiracy to Transport Aliens; Conspiracy to … (TCO), operating in the Santa Cruz and Mascarenas areas of Mexico, with the permission of the Sinaloa Cartel.  The … instruments from the United States to the Republic of Mexico.  The indictment further alleges that from 2019 until …
December 14, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Monterey County drug dealer and Mexican pharmacist charged in fentanyl overdose death case

October 08, 2020
… in connection with a scheme to transport the drugs from Mexico to California, announced United States Attorney David … and November 2019, Schraidt Rodriguez, 61, a pharmacist in Mexico, smuggled bottles of alprazolam and counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pills across the border from Mexico to California.  Once he was in the United States, …
October 08, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Seven Arrested In El Paso On Federal Drug Trafficking/Firearms Charges

December 06, 2011
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … crimes, including the smuggling of weapons into Mexico that potentially could be used by drug cartels to …
December 06, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Jury In Austin Convicts Four In Multi-Million Dollar Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Los Zetas Drug Trafficking Proceeds, Extortion, And Bribery

May 09, 2013
… revealed that Los Zetas are a powerful drug cartel based in Mexico and generate multi-million dollar revenues from drug … and transactions worth millions of dollars in New Mexico, Oklahoma, California and Texas to disguise the … County, Oklahoma Sheriff’s Office, and the Oklahoma and New Mexico Racing Commissions. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for …
May 09, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Alleged Leader Of Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Extradited To The U.S. To Face Drug And Money Laundering Charges

November 19, 2012
… of kilograms of hydroponic marijuana from Canada and Mexico, substantial quantities of MDMA from the Netherlands … and Canada, hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru, and large quantities … activities, including smuggling marijuana from Canada and Mexico concealed in tractor trailers, typically in hundred …
November 19, 2012
STORY

Methamphetamine Seizures Continue to Climb in the Midwest

July 10, 2019
Methamphetamine
… with high quantity loads coming in daily across the U.S. – Mexico border. Gone are the days of domestic super-labs and … upon the manufacturing method. Today’s methamphetamine from Mexico comes from mega-labs capable of producing hundreds of …
July 10, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Bakersfield Methamphetamine Trafficking Defendant Sentenced To Over 10 Years In Prison

September 24, 2015
… Calif. - Manuel Riviera-Felix, aka Felipe Garcia, 27, of Mexico, was sentenced today by United States District Judge … Angel Lopez, 33, of Bakersfield, Edi Vega Bustamante 22, of Mexico, and others to distribute up to 45 kilograms of …
September 24, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Fresno Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 22 Years

September 05, 2012
… 571-387-5018 FEESNO, CA - Theresa Martinez-Martinez, 48, of Mexico, was sentenced on Monday by United States District … Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and deported to Mexico. In early 2012, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive …
September 05, 2012
LANDING PAGE

Justice for KiKi

March 05, 2025
… destruction, and death across the United States and Mexico, has spent four decades atop DEA’s most wanted … (Kiki) S. Camarena was born on July 26, 1947, in Mexicali, Mexico. He graduated from Calexico High School in Calexico, …
March 05, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Two Indicted as Law Enforcement Captures Largest Fentanyl Seizure in South Carolina History

July 23, 2025
… Investigators believe the seized narcotics were sourced in Mexico and transported across the southern border.  Law …
July 23, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Court Sentenced Clayton Woman for Laundering Millions for Cartels and Moving Kilo Quantities of Narcotics

August 25, 2025
… of cocaine and methamphetamine that had been shipped from Mexico and laundered the proceeds from the sale of these drugs back to Mexico. In January 2023, agents learned that … drugs to customers in the Carolinas that originated in Mexico. Rodriguez-Flores was also responsible for laundering …
August 25, 2025
GENERAL INFORMATION

Phoenix News 2008

July 15, 2021
… Phoenix News 2008 December 3, 2008 Six Drug Traffickers from Mexico Sentenced to Federal Prison December 3, 2008 Phoenix … Ring Arrested July 23, 2008 Five Drug Traffickers From Mexico Sentenced to Federal Prison July 22, 2008 …
July 15, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Three indicted for conspiring to traffic 20,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of methamphetamine

February 21, 2020
… 571-387-5018 FRESNO, Calif. — Tirso Garcia-Valdez, 27, of Mexico, Misael Garcia-Carranza, 23, of Mexico, and Brenda Carmona-Venegas, 37, of Los Angeles, were …
February 21, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Two Mexican nationals indicted for transporting counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl

May 24, 2019
… a two-count indictment Thursday against Ivan Lopez, 34, of Mexico, and Erick Olivas Lopez, 39, of Mexico, charging them with conspiracy and possession with …
May 24, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Young Undocumented Alien Sentenced For Smuggling Drugs

February 07, 2018
… year old undocumented alien from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction … 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine. He was traveling from Mexico on a Turimex commercial passenger bus with the drugs …
February 07, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

“Project Below The Beltway” Targets Sinaloa And Juarez Cartels And Affiliated Violent Street Gangs Nationwide

December 06, 2012
… and several foreign cities within Central America, Europe, Mexico, South America and elsewhere, this initiative has … cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States.  These cartels are also …
December 06, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

High-Ranking Member Of Mexican “Los Zetas” Cartel Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy Charges

February 01, 2013
… shipments of cocaine and marijuana by motor vehicles from Mexico to cities in Texas for distribution to other cities … its gratitude and appreciation to the government of Mexico for its assistance in this matter.    At sentencing, …
February 01, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Fifteen Indicted In Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

March 18, 2011
… 33, also known as Alberto Carlos-Macias, 32, of Mexico, was sentenced to 30 months. The two will be deported to Mexico after they are released from prison. According to …
March 18, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Taft Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy

October 30, 2017
… FRESNO, Calif. - Mario Alvarez-Muniz, 49, a citizen of Mexico and former resident of Taft, entered a guilty plea … operation, but subsequently left the United States for Mexico.  He returned to the United States and in May of …
October 30, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Last Of Five Bakersfield Men Sentenced In Conspiracy To Distribute Methamphetamine

October 31, 2017
… drug dealers and users in Kern County and Las Cruces, New Mexico. During this time period, Blanco and the other … before they could be transported via bus to Las Cruces, New Mexico.   On September 26, 2016, Salvador Morales was …
October 31, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Bakersfield Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Distribute Methamphetamine, Heroin And Cocaine

February 18, 2014
… FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Sanchez-(Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and … Gamaliel Salas-Mendoza, aka Rene Salas (Salas), 38, also of Mexico, maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where …
February 18, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Trafficker in Western Washington, Caught Twice with Kilos of Drugs and Firearms, Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

May 28, 2025
… in Drug Distribution Conspiracy Stretching from Colombia to Mexico and into Washington State SEATTLE – A 38-year-old … worked from the streets of Seattle to drug suppliers in Mexico and Colombia,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Miller. … sums of drug trafficking proceeds to sources of supply in Mexico and Colombia. Additional assistance was provided by …
May 28, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Nineteen charged in heroin conspiracy

August 21, 2019
… kilograms of heroin and methamphetamine from sources in Mexico and elsewhere, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. … Gonzalez, De Leon, and Sanchez-Mijangos are citizens of Mexico.   According to the indictment, from December 2015 to … and methamphetamine from sources in California, Nevada, Mexico, Texas, and elsewhere for re-distribution in the …
August 21, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Peruvian citizen pleads guilty to role in transnational drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy

October 19, 2020
… At least $1 million was sent to Chicago, Los Angeles, Peru, Mexico and Colombia; money was also wired to China.  The … outside of Piura, and flew it to Guatemala, and then on to Mexico, where it was smuggled into the United States. … the Albany District Office and DEA offices in Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, …
October 19, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Ghostface Gangster Members, Associate Plead Guilty to Meth Trafficking Conspiracy from Georgia Prisons

November 13, 2024
… Wallace as a drug courier to move methamphetamine from a Mexico-based source located in metro Atlanta to Southwest … Courts instructed Wallace to obtain methamphetamine from a Mexico-based source of supply near Atlanta, Georgia, and … the drug conspiracy, including communications involving the Mexico-based source of supply and the trafficking of large …
November 13, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Chinese National Indicted for Importation of Enough Chemicals to Make Millions of Fatal Doses of Fentanyl

July 22, 2024
… of raw materials from China destined for various places in Mexico used in the manufacture of fentanyl. This historic … chemicals from China into the United States and on to Mexico in approximately 100 separate shipments between … Fang, through co-conspirators, shipped the chemicals into Mexico, according to the charges. If convicted, Fang faces …
July 22, 2024