De Los Reyes, Elias Calderon
FUGITIVE

Elias Calderon De Los Reyes

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: 21 USC 846 & 841 (a) (1) Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance-Cocaine Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute-Cocaine
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Agents Arrest 17 People in Large-Scale, Multi-State Drug Trafficking Ring

… arrested 17 people in Missouri, Arizona, California, and Mexico linked to an organized multi-state drug trafficking … Louis; Kenny Thomas, 38, of St. Louis but was arrested in Mexico;  Raymundo Deleon, 40, who is in custody in Los … with operations in various states in the United States and Mexico has no regard for the people around them and will …
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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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Alleged Drug Cartel Leader Charged

… . Based in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Valenzuela Valenzuela is alleged to be a Sinaloa … including methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, from Mexico into the United States. In addition to Valenzuela … Cabrera. Additionally, OFAC designated two companies in Mexico for being owned or controlled by Rochin Hurtado and …
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Shafter Man Pleads Guilty To Cocaine Smuggling

… Luis Montoya-Salazar, aka Rafael Salazar-(Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, and Luis Ricardo Eslava-(Eslava), 42, of Sinaloa, Mexico. As part of the plea agreement, Gil will forfeit $3.1 … containing cocaine smuggled into the United States from Mexico at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to a location in …
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DEA’s Louisville Field Division Targets Sinaloa Cartel Activities; 51 Arrested Across Three States

… counterparts, arrested 51 individuals with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.  All of those arrested are facing a …
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Major Mexican Heroin Trafficking Organization Targeted

… Torres Drug Trafficking Organization smuggles heroin from Mexico into the United States for distribution in cities … importing, and distributing heroin from Sinaloa, Mexico to the United States for well over two decades, as … as moving laundered drug proceeds from the United States to Mexico. Ruelas Torres and his criminal organization …
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Headquarters News 2010

July 15, 2021
… 2010 Alleged Mexican Drug Cartel Leader Extradicted From Mexico to United States to Face Federal Drug-Trafficking Charges January 13, 2010 DEA: Mexico Marks another Success against Drug Cartels …
July 15, 2021
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Federal jury finds Albuquerque career offender guilty of distributing heroin that caused teen's overdose death

… 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) … Paso Division and U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson.   "New Mexico has been hit hard by the heroin and opioid epidemic …
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DEA and partners announce results of 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 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) … drugs.” “We thank everyone in El Paso, West Texas, and New Mexico who brought us their medications last weekend,” said …
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Federal Judge Sentences Three Methamphetamine Traffickers

… methamphetamine smuggled in to the United States from Mexico. Judge Voorhees also sentenced Troy William Yount, … of supervised release. 13. Jose Francisco Jimenez Pina - of Mexico, was sentenced in April 2014 to 180 months in prison … years of supervised release. 22. Luis Enrique Garcia - , of Mexico, was sentenced in December 2013 to 188 months in …
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Two Hobbs, NM Men Sentenced To Federal 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) … drivers to pick up marijuana along the border with Mexico in South Brewster and Presidio, Counties of Texas, …
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DEA to hold 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 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) … Take Back locations throughout El Paso, West Texas and New Mexico. When the public brings us their unwanted medications …
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United States District Court Orders Forfeiture of Real Estate Purchased by Mexican Cartel Leader Rafael Caro Quintero with Proceeds of his Drug Trafficking Organization

… pieces of real property located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico. These properties, described in the civil forfeiture … Force, as well as the DEA Raleigh Resident Office and DEA Mexico City Country Office for their assistance with the … and multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexico to the United States. As part of its investigation, …
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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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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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Operación dirigida por la DEA que tiene como blanco al Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación genera más de 600 arrestos

… criminales transnacionales de más rápido crecimiento en México que se encuentra entre los fabricantes de … en buena parte por los elevados niveles de violencia en México. Con el abuso de la metanfetamina y el aumento en los … a cargo dentro de la organización fue extraditado de México a Estados Unidos bajo cargos por tráfico de drogas y …
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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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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 Administrator's Remarks on China-Based Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Arrests

June 23, 2023
… supplied drug traffickers, in the United States and Mexico, with the ingredients and scientific know-how needed …
June 23, 2023
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Albuquerque company agrees to $240,000 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) … N.M. – Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Fred J. Federici has announced that Albuquerque …
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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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Former Employee of San Francisco Money Services Business Charged with Conspiring to Launder Drug Proceeds

… of cash to various foreign bank accounts, including some in Mexico, at the unnamed co-conspirator’s direction. … each of the three recipient bank accounts was located in Mexico, including two in Sinaloa. And the complaint alleges …
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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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Carlsbad man sentenced to five years on gun and drug 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. – Kristopher Wade Parker, 36, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was sentenced on Oct. 14 in federal court to …
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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 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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El Paso Man Sentenced to Federal Prison 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) … rounds of ammunition intended for illegal exportation into Mexico. That ammunition was seized by FBI in July 2019 as …
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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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Skagit County business owner sentenced to prison for laundering money for drug cartel that trafficked heroin and fentanyl

… money transmitter status to hide and send drug proceeds to Mexico for drug trafficking group tied to cartel SEATTLE -- … laundering the drug proceeds by transmitting the funds to Mexico using the money remittance services offered at his … drug traffickers to send tens of thousands of dollars to Mexico in amounts structured to avoid any reporting …