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One Suspect Charged As Feds Shutter 2 San Diego-Area Smuggling Tunnels

… in collaboration with their enforcement counterparts in Mexico, have uncovered two sophisticated smuggling tunnels … tunnel was detected Thursday morning as investigators from Mexico, in close coordination with special agents from U.S. …
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Alleged Sinaloa Cartel Leader Extradited To The United States From The Netherlands

… Sicairos-Garcia,” as he deplaned a KLM flight from Mexico City, Mexico to Amsterdam. The United States made formal requests …
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Over 65 Pounds Of Heroin Recovered From Truck Axle In Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Two Arrested

… doses of heroin. “This heroin had a long journey from Mexico to New York where it was destined for distribution … receiving tractor-trailer shipments of narcotics from a Mexico-based organization. The drug shipments crossed the …
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Member Of Alleged International Organization Of Money Launderers For The Largest Drug Cartels Extradited To The United States

… world to launder over $5 billion for drug cartels based in Mexico and Colombia. Hincapie-Ramirez was arrested in … and China on behalf of drug trafficking organizations in Mexico and Colombia to fund purchases of counterfeit goods …
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Seven Charged With Drug Trafficking As Part Of Nationwide Enforcement Targeting Mexican Cartels

… and 11 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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Leader Of Poly-Drug Trafficking & International Money Laundering Ring Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison

… laundering the proceeds by wire transfer to El Salvador, Mexico and Colombia. Eight defendants have now been indicted … The indictment alleged that he sent drug proceeds to Mexico, Colombia, and El Salvador on 21 occasions. At this …
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Three Illegal Aliens Face Federal Charges for Operating a Brookhaven Meth Lab

… - (910) 815-4513 Atlanta – Three illegal aliens from Mexico, Sergio Cortes-Nieto, Christian Martinez Larumbe … Larumbe Dominguez, and Cortes Raquel are citizens of Mexico and illegally present in the United States.  Sergio … Dominguez, 31, and Jose Angel Cortes Raquel, 39, all of Mexico, appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge on a …
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Previously Deported Illegal Alien Faces Federal Charges for Trafficking Fentanyl in Brookhaven

… revealed that Avila Gomez is a citizen and national of Mexico with no legal status in the United States. … Gomez was previously deported from the United States to Mexico in November 2014.   Abelardo Avila Gomez, 46, of Acapulco, Mexico, appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge earlier …
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Carrollton Woman Pleads Guilty to Harboring Illegal Aliens and Participating in Massive Meth Distribution Operation

… revealed that the methamphetamine was imported from Mexico in bags of charcoal. During the investigation, agents … $1,900,000. Agents discovered that two illegal aliens from Mexico, Jonathan Guzman Esquivel and Alfonso … 34, and Alfonso Calderon-Rodriguez, 30, both of Uruapan, Mexico, previously pleaded guilty to possession with the …
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Illegal Alien Faces Federal Charges for Selling Fentanyl at a Farmers Market Produce Stand

… Atlanta – Luis Sanchez-Acevedo, an illegal alien from Mexico, appeared in federal court yesterday afternoon on … further revealed that Sanchez-Acevedo is a citizen of Mexico and illegally present in the United States.  Luis Sanchez-Acevedo, 41, of Tehuacán, Mexico, appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge yesterday on …
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Trial Victory Secured in Largest Single Fentanyl Pill Bust in DEA History

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … fentanyl dealer operating in Hobbs and southern New Mexico, Jose Marquez. In November 2024, agents executed a …
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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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Drug Kingpin Indicted In New York

… George P. Beach II, announced the indictment of a Mexico-based drug kingpin and five others in a wide-ranging … multi-kilogram quantities of fentanyl and heroin from Mexico for distribution in the New York City area. In an … Quiroz-Zamora arranged for narcotics to be smuggled from Mexico to Arizona and California via trucks, cars and drug …
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National Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Organization In Sandy Springs Dismantled

… of thousands of kilograms of cocaine imported from Mexico and transported from California to Kansas City, … while he remained incarcerated. The cocaine originated from Mexico and was supplied from California by Jose Gastelum and … Police Department; Heard County Sheriff's Office; New Mexico State Police, Arkansas State Police; Los Angeles …
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The Illegal Drug Threat in Wisconsin

March 25, 2025
… (both fentanyl and heroin), cocaine, methamphetamine, and Mexico-grown marijuana in the state. The current threat …
March 25, 2025
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Mexican Cartel Presence and Impact in Australia and New Zealand

March 25, 2025
… and cocaine markets in the region. Large scale Mexico-origin methamphetamine shipments in sophisticated …
March 25, 2025
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San Diego News 2004

July 15, 2021
…  JUN 7, 2004 Major Cartel Lieutenants Arrested in Mexico  APR 9, 2004 Operation Speed Bump Impacts San Diego …
July 15, 2021
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San Diego News 2004

July 15, 2021
…  JUN 7, 2004 Major Cartel Lieutenants Arrested in Mexico  APR 9, 2004 Operation Speed Bump Impacts San Diego …
July 15, 2021
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DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

… like fentanyl. The Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco Cartel in Mexico, using chemicals largely sourced from China, are …
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DEA Phoenix Division partners with Air Wing to host Congressional Delegation in Arizona

April 17, 2019
… border, and an aerial tour of Arizona’s border with Mexico.  The delegation was greeted by Special Agents in …
April 17, 2019
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Trial Victory Secured in Largest Single Fentanyl Pill Bust in DEA History

… fentanyl dealer operating in Hobbs and southern New Mexico, Jose Marquez. In November 2024, agents executed a … the network that brought addiction and violence to New Mexico and neighboring states. We will not stop until every …
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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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Bridgeport Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Federal Prison for Role in Heroin Trafficking Ring

… least 30 kilograms of heroin that had been transported from Mexico to Bridgeport hidden inside motorcycles equipped with … his court proceeding.  Brown was located and arrested in Mexico in September 2019, and has been detained since that …
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Pilot Charged In Cocaine Trafficking Scheme Extradited From Paraguay

… announced that RONIER SANCHEZ ALONSO, 46, a citizen of Mexico who is charged in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, … cocaine would be loaded onto trucks for transport through Mexico into the U.S.  A fake flight plan filed with …
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DEA Rolls Out Operation Engage

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) …
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Four Oklahoma Men Indicted After Officers Seize $1 Million Worth of Cocaine in I-70 Traffic Stop

… of Honduras, Luis Gerardo Nieto-Acosta, 35, a citizen of Mexico, and Miguel Angel Anguiano-Viera, 26, all of Oklahoma … City, and Jose Eduardo Acosta-Bermejo, 28, a citizen of Mexico, of Bethany, Okla., were charged in a three-count …
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Three More Defendants Indicted in Northwest MO Fentanyl Conspiracy

… of St. Joseph, Mo., Raymundo Felix-Perez, 31, a citizen of Mexico who resided in Bethany, Mo., and Joshua Stramel, 26, … drug-trafficking conspiracy and wired the money to Sinaloa, Mexico. Bernard is also charged with two counts of …
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Three Defendants Sentenced for $2.1 Million Meth Conspiracy

… De La Cruz Nava, 26, of Kansas City, Kan., both citizens of Mexico, and John Paul Gnat, 32, of St. Joseph, were … Co-defendant Luis Carlos Ramos Caraveo, 27, a citizen of Mexico residing in Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced on July …
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KCK Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Conspiracy to Distribute More Than 2,600 Kilos of Cocaine

… to co-defendants Miguel Armendariz-Rascon, 33, a citizen of Mexico residing in Olathe, Kan., and Jesus Salvador … the drug-trafficking organization back to Texas and/or to Mexico. Zaragoza-Navarrette hid the cocaine and/or the cash …