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DEA showcases the dangers of drug addiction through travelling museum exhibit

… in Albuquerque with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, where it will … to the exhibit is included in the admission to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. For more …
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Sinaloa Cartel Bodyguard Pleads Guilty To Federal Murder Charge In El Paso

… 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) … both the Western District of Texas and the District of New Mexico from 2002 to 2006; and, while in Albuquerque, NM, in …
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DEA Omaha Field Division Welcomes New Special Agent in Charge

… In this role, Gillespie led multi-agency teams targeting Mexico-based cartel leaders and their criminal distribution …
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Five Related Indictments Target South Bay Drug Distribution Schemes

… Transported Drug Supply From Southern California And Mexico To The San Jose Area SAN FRANCISCO – In five related … simultaneous investigations into the movement of drugs from Mexico to the streets of the San Jose area.   “These cases … how Miranda allegedly used his ties to suppliers in Mexico to sustain the flow of drugs into the Bay Area.  …
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34 Suspects Indicted In Drug And Firearms Trafficking Organization

… illegally trafficking firearms from the United States to Mexico. Beginning earlier this morning, a multi-agency law … of firearms, including AK-47s, to be illegally exported to Mexico. Defendants, none of whom are licensed firearms … is committed to stopping the illegal flow of guns into Mexico,” said Dennis K. Burke, U.S. Attorney for the …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the … members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the … members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the … members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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Illegal alien sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin

… BOISE, Idaho - Ubaldo Soto-Diaz, an illegal alien from Mexico, but residing in Portersville, California, was … distributing high potency methamphetamine, manufactured in Mexico and then transported from California to Idaho. During … controlled substances for sale in 2009. He was deported to Mexico on May 17, 2010. He was found to be illegally present …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Firearms Straw Purchasing And Smuggling Operation

… 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) … purchase firearms in the U.S. then smuggle them into Mexico for the purposes of arming members of the Sinaloa …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the … members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the … members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the … members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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Kansas Man Sentenced in International Drug Smuggling Ring

… to traffic illegal narcotics sourced from his family in Mexico in the Kansas City metro area. His primary role in … transport bulk United States currency from Kansas City to Mexico. “As long as drug smugglers infiltrate our borders …
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Mexican Women Plead Guilty to Smuggling Balls of Heroin in Potato Chip Bags

… 297-0300 LAREDO, Texas – Two women residing in Monterrey, Mexico, have admitted to their roles in importing nearly … with them. The co-conspirators planned on returning to Mexico with a large amount of cash. The Drug Enforcement …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Drug Conspiracy and Illegal Reentry

… TUCSON, Ariz. – Jesus Alejandro Bojorquez-Moreno, 37, of Mexico, was sentenced on May 6, 2025, by United States …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To Five Years In Federal 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) … a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso and then transported the drug to …
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Guilty Verdict In Major Drug Trafficking Case

… - (914) 682-6256 Heroin and fentanyl transported from Mexico to Albany, NY for street distribution ALBANY, N.Y. - … This organization’s circuitous drug smuggling route from Mexico to Florida to New York was used to evade police.  … trafficking operation spanning from the supplier in Mexico, to West Palm Beach, Florida, up through New York …
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Mexican National and California Man Charged Following Seizure of Over 45 Kilograms of Fentanyl Pills and Powder

… and Ethyel Aldahyr Ontiveros-Flores, 25, of Mazatlan, Mexico, were arrested on the evening of June 2, 2025, and …
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California Man Arrested at US-Mexican Border for his Role in Rochester Drug Conspiracy

… had been in contact with numerous telephone numbers in Mexico. Velasquez was arrested as he attempted to enter the United States from Mexico. He made an initial appearance in the Southern …
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El Paso Man Sentenced for Role in Two Deaths From a Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Overdose

… 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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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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Federal Jury Convicts Mexican Citizen Living In San Antonio For His Role In Kidnapping Scheme

… Luis Martin Cavazos Cantu was kidnapped from his Monterrey, Mexico residence by several men. While Cantu was in the custody of his abductors in Mexico, Deleon Garza placed several phone calls from Bexar … Drug Enforcement (DEA) in San Antonio and in (Monterrey and Mexico City) in cooperation with the State of Nuevo León …
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DEA New Orleans Division Delivers Major Blow to Sinaloa Cartel, Securing Dozens of Arrests and Seizures

… enforcement partners – arrested 38 individuals with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. All of those arrested are facing a …
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Italian national implicated in international money laundering and narcotics conspiracy extradited to the United States

… a variety of methods. The Organization has ties to Panama, Mexico, Italy, Spain, and the United States, among other … of $250 million in proceeds on behalf of drug cartels in Mexico and Central America.  This case is also related to … with directions to wire it to shell accounts in Mexico, Hong Kong, and Italy, among other places. In this …
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DEA Administrator invites two El Paso and Albuquerque families to first-ever Family Summit on the Overdose Epidemic

… 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) …
Pavon-Reyes, Jorge Armando
FUGITIVE

Jorge Armando Pavon-Reyes

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketerring18 USC 1952(b)Conspiracy to Kidnap a Federal Agent18 USC 1201(c)Kidnapping of a Federal Agent18 USC 1201(a)(5)Felony Murder of a Federal Agent18 USC 11111114Acessory After the Fact18 USC 3Aiding and Abetting18 USC 2
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Hundreds Of Counterfeit Oxycodone Tablets Seized At Port Of Entry Contained Ultra-Deadly Fentanyl

… the first time that federal officials along the California-Mexico border have intercepted counterfeit oxycodone tablets … containing fentanyl as they were being smuggled from Mexico into the United States. “DEA will continue to … defendant Sergio Linyuntang Mendoza Bohon of Tijuana, Mexico, was arraigned on a charge that he unlawfully …
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Heroin Trafficking

… was heard during a wiretap discussing sourcing heroin from Mexico and the difficulties of getting people and drugs …
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Midland Man Sentenced for Illegal Fentanyl 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) …