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“Operation G-60” Dismantles Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Operating In Metro Atlanta

… are federal fugitives: ADRIAN MARTINEZ-MONTANEZ, 41, Mexico, ROBERTO PEREZ-MENDOZA, 32, Mexico, MARIA MADRIZ-HERNANDEZ, 47, Smyrna, SAMANTHA … SEPULVEDA-MADRIZ, 23, Smyrna, FAUSTO BUENO-ALVAREZ, 32, Mexico, FRANKLIN ALVARADO-MEJIA, 23, Guatemala, LUIS …
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Pawan Kumar Jain Arrested On Charges Of Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Drugs And Health Care Fraud

… 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) … June 2012 and subsequently revoked in Dec. 2012 by the New Mexico Medical Board. Each of the 61 dispensing charges …
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DEA El Paso SAC Thorne-James to address local media

… 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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Leader Of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To 11 Years Prison

… of Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, 42, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, to 11 years in prison.  Castro-Rocha, a former … of heroin from a base of operations in Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico.  After a brief hold in stash houses throughout … Springs, Colorado; Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Between October 2008 and …
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Alleged CJNG Cartel Enforcers Charged with Drug Trafficking

… maintained the ability to traffic drugs through Tijuana, Mexico, and into the United States through San Diego. In an … a catastrophic trail of human and physical destruction in Mexico. It is the most well-armed cartel in Mexico. Its members willingly confront rival cartels and …
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U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Sentencing of Albuquerque Man for Drug Trafficking and Firearms 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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Former Santa Fe Pharmacist Pleads Guilty And Is Sentenced For Conviction On Misdemeanor Charge Of Dispensing Testosterone Without A Prescription

… 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) … of any specific prescriptions for the medication. The New Mexico Board of Pharmacy suspended Nunez’s pharmacist …
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Leader And A Member Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Sentenced To 120 Months And 110 Months Respectively For Drug Trafficking

… imported thousands of pounds of marijuana from Canada and Mexico, distributed large quantities of oxycodone, and … more than a thousand pounds of marijuana from Canada and Mexico, and large quantities of diverted prescription pills, … of kilograms of hydroponic marijuana from Canada and Mexico, substantial quantities of MDMA from the Netherlands …
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Fort Worth Couple Sentenced For Roles In Methamphetamine Trafficking Conspiracy

… kilogram-quantities of methamphetamine from a source in Mexico that he subsequently distributed in the Dallas - Fort … She also received instructions from a person in Mexico as to how to wire or otherwise return the drug proceeds to the person in Mexico.  The instructions she received usually involved …
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Former Gulf Cartel Leader Convicted Of Drug Conspiracy And Assaults On Federal Officers

… and money laundering organization in Northern Tamaulipas, Mexico. During his association with the CDG, … from the sale of narcotics were returned to the CDG in Mexico. Money laundering efforts to promote this scheme included bulk cash currency smuggling to Northern Mexico, the use of funnel accounts to wire money into …
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Mexican Citizen Sentenced to Over 6 years in Federal Prison for Cocaine Trafficking

… According to court documents, Hector Campoy, 41, of Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in federal …
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Domestic Trafficker Imprisoned For Possessing Over 2,000 Counterfeit Pills

… revealed the source of supply was from Sinaloa, Mexico. The investigation revealed Somers had traveled from …
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30 Years For Los Zetas Cartel Leader

… responsible for starting the violence that still plagues Mexico today, stating that even though it has morphed into … of cocaine and 1000 kilograms or more of marijuana from Mexico into the United States. Millions of dollars in drug … from the United States to Velasquez-Caballero and others in Mexico. To date, 15 others have been convicted by plea or …
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Alleged Drug Cartel Leader Charged

… raw opium gum and heroin sources of supply in northern Mexico, and increasingly a major distributor of fentanyl. … Penuelas DTO operates primarily in Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico, various ports of entry in the United States, as well … The Gonzalez Penuelas DTO cooperates with other DTOs within Mexico, to include acting as an enforcement arm for the …
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Mexican National Unlawfully Present in the United States Sentenced to 20 Years for Discharging a Firearm at Spokane Police During a Drug Trafficking Crime

… custody. Garcia was released in 2021 and deported to Mexico. Garcia returned unlawfully to the United States in …
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Former Mexican Lawyer Who Became Major Meth Supplier to Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to More Than Seven Years in Prison

… Stalled During the Pandemic Tacoma – A former attorney from Mexico was sentenced June 21, 2024, to 90 months in prison … a drug user. In fact, he previously worked as a lawyer in Mexico and came to the U.S. in 2020 when the pandemic …
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6 “Cruces Boys” Gang Members Arrested For Cocaine 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) … of (FBI), Las Cruces Police Department’s Gang Unit, New Mexico State Police, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Marshals …
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Multiple People Indicted for Meth Trafficking, Money Laundering

… money wire transfers totaling $55,500 to a person in Mexico City, Mexico in order to promote unlawful activity. He is also …
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Mexican National Sentenced for Distribution of Fentanyl

… 571-324-7324 TUCSON, Ariz. – Adrian Lopez-Aparicio, 40, of Mexico, was sentenced on April 24, 2025, by United States …
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Texas Man Sentenced To 70 Months For Role In International Drug And Money Laundering Conspiracy

… to launder drug money out of the United States and into Mexico.  Canales previously pleaded guilty to conspiring … out of the United States to co-conspirators operating in Mexico. Canales joined the conspiracy by at least October … were the proceeds of drug trafficking, over the border into Mexico. During the sentencing hearing, the court described …
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DEA Reveals Criminal Drug Networks Are Flooding the U.S. with Deadly Fentanyl

… overdose deaths and criminal drug networks in Mexico. These groups are harnessing social media platforms … DEA officials warn that criminal drug networks in Mexico are mass-producing deadly fentanyl and …
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6 To Prison For Laundering Millions For Drug Cartel Also Ordered To Forfeit Nearly $3 Million- Javier Rena Remains Fugitive

… Elena Bonilla-Torres, 41, of Puente de Camciclan, Nayarit, Mexico; Guillermo Trevino, 44, of Weslaco; and Erwin Rolando Contreras-Mata, 27, of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, all pleaded guilty Aug. 31, 2016. U.S. District … drug proceeds were stored prior to being smuggled into to Mexico, while Haro admitted to handling the communications …
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Alfredo Beltran Leyva Sentenced To Life In Prison For Drug Trafficking

… into the United States.  The defendant was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Nov. 15, 2014, and pleaded … organization helped finance and which were transported to Mexico via air, land and sea.  Once the cocaine reached Mexico, the defendant’s organization transported it to key …
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El Paso Man Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Prison for Trafficking Cocaine

… 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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El Paso Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Marijuana 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) …
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Prominent Oregon Drug Trafficker and Final Defendant in Large Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced

… an Oregon-based drug trafficking cell with ties to a large Mexico-based drug trafficking organization was sentenced to … investigating a drug trafficking organization with ties to Mexico operating in several states, including Oregon. In the …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison for Role in Drug Conspiracy

… Ariz. – German Montano-Peralta, 33, of Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced on May 12, 2025, by United States …
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Mexican National Extradited from Brazil

… organization (DTO), which is based in Jalisco State in Mexico. Los Cuinis is closely aligned with the Cartel de … the largest, most dangerous, and prolific drug cartels in Mexico. They have been and continue to be responsible for …
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Las Vegas Real Estate Broker Arrested On Money Laundering Charges

… to narcotics traffickers and money launderers based in Mexico. Rodriguez was arrested this morning in Las Vegas, … $250 million in drug proceeds on behalf of drug cartels in Mexico and Central America through a variety of methods, … a variety of methods. The Organization has ties to Panama, Mexico, Italy, Spain, and the United States, among other …
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Mexican Toy Dealer Pleads Guilty In Drug Money Laundering Case

… of “narco dollars” for drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. Luis Ernesto Flores Rivera, 54, of Guadalajara, Mexico, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty … generated by drug trafficking organizations based in Mexico and Colombia. A “structured” deposit is less than …