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Man Indicted for Distribution of Oxymorphone Causing 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) …
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Multi-County Marijuana Prosecutions

… of his prison term, Garcia is subject to deportation to Mexico. Garcia’s co-defendant, Jose Cisneros Garcia, 53, of … 1:12-cr-0282 AWI) - Rafael Garcia Deniz, 44, of Jalisco, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, … Co-defendant Gonzalo Gutierrez Lopez, 40, of Jalisco, Mexico is awaiting sentencing. Both Garcia and Gutierrez are …
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DEA El Paso Recognizes First Ever National Fentanyl Awareness 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) …
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Southern District Of Texas Investigation And Personnel Win National Award

… Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, Eagle Pass, Nuevo Laredo and Mexico City; agents from Homeland Security (HSI) in Laredo; … with obliterated serial numbers that were destined for Mexico. In addition, as a direct result law enforcement … 54 have been convicted, two are awaiting extradition from Mexico and nine are fugitives. The investigation also led to …
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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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Former El Paso Physician Agrees to Pay $350,000 to Resolve Allegations

… 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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Transnational drug trafficker sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine and for money laundering

… laundering offenses. After Ivan Calvillo was murdered in Mexico in December 2015, Casillas took over operations for … the head of the transnational trafficking organization in Mexico. The organization was responsible for the monthly … the Drug Enforcement Administration in Boston, Seattle, Mexico City and Vancouver; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police …
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels, And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced To 27 Years For Leading A Billion Dollar Narcotics Trafficking Enterprise

… the Hells Angels, and the notorious Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, was sentenced earlier today to 27 years in prison by … and firearms between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Today’s sentence sends a powerful message to those … to purchase cocaine from the powerful Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico for exportation to and distribution in Canada by …
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Local Santa Rosa Lima Cartel Cell Head Sentenced for Drug Crimes, Money Laundering

… who worked with the Santa Rosa Lima Drug Cartel and other Mexico-based drug trafficking organizations was sentenced … using fake names to wire money to recipients in Guanajuato, Mexico, in an effort to launder the proceeds of his illegal …
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Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow from the Southwest Border

January 23, 2025
… for providing criminal actors in the United States and Mexico with the precursor chemicals and scientific know-how …
January 23, 2025
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Santa Fe Man Sentenced To Seventy-Eight Months For Participating In Crack Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

… 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) … III Drug Task Force is comprised of officers from the New Mexico State Police, Santa Fe Police Department and the …
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Bristol, Tennessee Woman Sentenced to 13 Years For Role in Large-Scale Meth Trafficking Conspiracy

… part of a conspiracy that trafficked methamphetamine from Mexico into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced last week to … shipments of methamphetamine from sources of supply in Mexico to accomplices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Houston, …
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High Level Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Leadership Role in Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… of narcotics who was in direct contact with suppliers in Mexico. Vazquez-Limon made multiple pound drug deals and … heroin, and cocaine, smuggling the drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and then transporting them up the west coast for …
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Worldwide Drug Trafficker Sentenced

… chemicals to customers in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and other countries and conspired to launder the … Malik sold large quantities of ephedrine to customers in Mexico, the country of origin for most of the … needed to make methamphetamine to clandestine producers in Mexico and Africa. Malik had never set foot in this country …
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The 2018 Heroin Signature Program

September 03, 2020
… heroin samples each year to identify the geographic area—Mexico, South America (SA), Southwest Asia (SWA), or …
September 03, 2020
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Queen Creek Man Found Guilty Of Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine And Marijuana

… that will no longer be available to aid drug cartels from Mexico.” The evidence at trial showed that Chrzaszcz was … dollars to Arizona for transfer to the sources of supply in Mexico. Additionally, on August 9, 2009, New Mexico State Police stopped two individual truck drivers and …
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Grand Jury Indicts St. Louis Man and Others in International Drug Ring

… owed a substantial drug debt to the source of supply in Mexico for controlled substances which had been fronted to … Sept. 12, 2019. The money was then transferred to banks in Mexico.  The indictment further alleges that Rockette …
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Carlsbad Man Sentenced For Role In Scheme To Launder Money For Drug Rings, Including The Sinaloa Cartel

… involved operatives in Canada, India, the United States and Mexico who laundered drug trafficking proceeds generated … Rios, 33, of Coachella, who authorities believe fled to Mexico; Tina Pham, 25, of Montreal; and a Canadian man known … Port of Entry, but authorities believe he has now fled to Mexico.             This investigation was conducted by the …
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Missouri Meth Distributor and Money Launderer Sentenced to 21 Years

… after it had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico, to the Springfield area. Conn then distributed the … of the drug trafficking organization in California and Mexico. This was done to conceal and disguise the nature, …
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Lonnie Dean Sentenced To Twenty Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Methamphetamine In Valencia County And Assaulting A Federal Officer

… 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 the 13th Judicial District Court for the State of New Mexico.  Dean has entered a not guilty plea to the state …
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Six Charged In Global Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Conspiracies

… under their control.   The Organization has ties to Panama, Mexico, Italy, Spain, and the United States, among other … Jesus Rodriguez-Jimenez, who was based in Monterrey, Mexico, Alejandro Javier Rodriguez-Jimenez directed their … with directions to wire it to shell accounts in Mexico, Hong Kong, Italy and other places.  The Organization …
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Mexican National Pleads Guilty To Involvement In Naco Drug Tunnel Case

… States through a tunnel that extended into Naco, Ariz, from Mexico. The investigation began after the seizure of 5.6 … of the trial and remained a fugitive until his arrest in Mexico in 2010. He was extradited to the United States in … had passed through the tunnel that extended 210 feet from Mexico to Naco, Arizona. Both defendants were sentenced to …
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Three indicted for conspiring to traffic 20,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of methamphetamine

… (571) 387-3956 FRESNO, Calif. — Tirso Garcia-Valdez, 27, of Mexico, Misael Garcia-Carranza, 23, of Mexico, and Brenda Carmona-Venegas, 37, of Los Angeles, were …
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Member of Bristol, Virginia Methamphetamine Drug Ring Sentenced

… and Marissa Wise, to traffic methamphetamine sourced in Mexico from known Mexican cartel members and shipped through … directed the wiring of funds to various recipients in Mexico and has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. United …
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Federal Judge Sentences Florida Man to Over 21 Years in Prison for Drug and Gun Charges

… that Perez obtained his drugs from drug distributors in Mexico by way of Georgia. Perez then distributed the drugs … transfer receipts indicating that Perez was wiring money to Mexico, under false names and addresses. In the camper, …
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Four Defendants Charged in Federal Court for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

… alleges that Fletcher used a source of supply located in Mexico to obtain fentanyl pills and methamphetamine. These …
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Former Houston Police Officer Sentenced To Over 30 Years In Prison On Federal Drug And Firearm Charges

… supplied to the conspiracy by the Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico.  Juarez played a pivotal role by providing law … some of which ended up among senior cartel leaders in Mexico. “The cartel’s efforts to infiltrate law enforcement are not limited to Mexico. They want to do it here as well, and we can't let …
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“Project Below The Beltway” Targets Sinaloa And Juarez Cartels And Affiliated Violent Street Gangs Nationwide

… 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 …
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Three individuals indicted for conspiring to traffic over 10,000 fentanyl pills, 10 lbs methamphetamine and possessing firearms in furtherance of their drug trafficking crimes

… 387-3956 FRESNO, Calif. — Jorge Luis Velasquez, 33, of Mexico, Omar Velazquez Landeros, 27, of Bakersfield, and Victor Romero Galvan, 29, of Mexico, were indicted today for conspiring and possessing …