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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… pills brought into the United States are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico. The drug overdose crisis in the United States is a …
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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… pills brought into the United States are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico. The drug overdose crisis in the United States is a …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… pills brought into the United States are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico. The drug overdose crisis in the United States is a …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… pills brought into the United States are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico. The drug overdose crisis in the United States is a …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… pills brought into the United States are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico. The drug overdose crisis in the United States is a …
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Mexican national sentenced to over 20 years in prison for setting fire to drug smuggling vessel during U.S. Coast Guard interdiction

… TAMPA, Fla. - Jesus Soto-Martinez (41, Michoacan, Mexico) was sentenced to 21 years and 3 months in federal … waters about 378 nautical miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. The defendants were carrying approximately 2,000 …
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Colombian Nationals Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Use “Narco-Submarines”

… Ocean, destined for Sinaloa Cartel members in Oaxaca, Mexico. The defendants served various roles and … that had departed from Colombia and were en route to Mexico. The first SPSS carried approximately 6,900 kilograms …
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Federal jury convicts Colorado man of transporting kilograms of methamphetamine through Albuquerque by bus

… 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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Large methamphetamine and fentanyl distribution network dismantled in Evansville, IN

… include: Rudolfo Ibarra-Hernandez, Aka “Rudy,” 48, Mexico FUGITIVE Juan Guzman, Aka “Hollywood,” 33, Mexico FUGITIVE Juan Tellez, 44, Phoenix, AZ Alexus Ortiz, …
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Two women plead guilty to heroin possession

… Maria Guadalupe Martinez-Plascencia, 48, of Guadalajara, Mexico, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to … Claudia Anel Cuevas-Sandoval, 38, also of Guadalajara, Mexico, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to …
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Trafficker smuggling large quantities of deadly fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine sentenced to 168 months

… conspiring to smuggle more than 450,000 fentanyl pills from Mexico into the United States during a nine-month period … who decide to smuggle fentanyl and other drugs from Mexico: If you aren’t caught at the border, DEA and our …
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Holyoke Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Conspiracy

… is one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Mexico. Mr. Rodriguez conspired to bring CJNG’s violent drug … violent transnational criminal organizations operating in Mexico and the United States. Equally troubling is what we …
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Meth on the rise in New Jersey

… of methamphetamine distributed in New Jersey originates in Mexico and has a very high purity level. Methamphetamine is … high purity level is indicative of large-scale labs in Mexico, where the Sinaloa Cartel are attempting to expand …
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Cocaine kingpin with Mexican cartel connections sentenced to 20 years

… coordinated routine bulk shipments of cocaine from Reynosa, Mexico, through the Rio Grande Valley, and then to the St. … currency were shipped back through the southern U.S. to Mexico as payment for the cocaine. During the course of the …
Luis Jose Avalos-Zarate
FUGITIVE

Luis Jose Avalos-Zarate

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy
Sergio Antonio Arce-Valenzuela
FUGITIVE

Sergio Antonio Arce-Valenzuela

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy
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USAO employee indicted for conspiring to obstruct justice

… from San Antonio. Gustamante allegedly imported drugs from Mexico, sold them in the San Antonio area and transported proceeds back to suppliers in Mexico. Kimberly Loya served as a courier for Gustamante’s …
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Leader Of Drug Trafficking Organization Operating In New Jersey Extradited From The Dominican Republic

… (DTO) operating in New Jersey, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and elsewhere. The investigation revealed that De La … of the DTO. The narcotics were generally imported from Mexico and transported via truck to the New Jersey and New …
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Violent Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Indicted For Meth And Heroin Distribution

… 18, 2011, charging 18 subjects involved in a Sinaloa, Mexico drug trafficking organization with multiple … of the organization smuggled drugs across the border from Mexico, to a stash house in Arizona. The drugs were … discussed a contract killing of unknown persons in Mexico. On May 12, 2011, a federal grand jury returned an …
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Operation Reload: Jury Convicts Kingpin And Members Of His Family Of Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… having shipped millions of dollars in drug proceeds back to Mexico and the Cartel/Zetas. The government’s evidence also proved that large money transfers were being sent from Mexico to the various bank accounts used by Leandro Salas … Salas Galaviz discusses having sent millions of dollars to Mexico in tractors for loads of drugs delivered in the …
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Dispatcher In Dial For Dope Tacoma Heroin Case Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison

… utilized to ship hundreds of thousands of drug proceeds to Mexico. In the course of the thirteen month investigation, … there have been 22,700 narcotics related murders in Mexico since 2006, as Mexican cartels battle to decide who … and also assisted them with wiring illegal drug proceeds to Mexico using false names to conceal the money’s source and …
GENERAL INFORMATION

DEA Acting Administrator Tim Shea visits the agency’s San Diego Field Division

January 22, 2025
… Task Force.  The San Diego Division’s proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border makes the issue of cross-border drug tunnels a …
January 22, 2025
GENERAL INFORMATION

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
GENERAL INFORMATION

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
STORY

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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Jury convicts three men of trafficking nearly $17 million of cocaine

… Ocean, approximately 364 nautical miles south of Chiapas, Mexico. The patrol aircraft notified the nearby the U.S. … agents working from South America, Central America and Mexico to protect the land, sea and air borders in San Diego …
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Mexican citizen pleads guilty to drug conspiracy in Western District of New York

… today that Humberto Martinez-Vega, 48, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge … co-defendant Giovani Ramirez-Soto, 27, also a citizen of Mexico, to sell heroin.   On July 26, 2018, a New York State …
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South Carolina Drug Trafficker Helping Move Kilograms of Cocaine Sentenced to More than Six Years

… a drug ledger, and money transmittal receipts to Guerrero, Mexico, and to Cortes, Honduras. During an interview with …
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Presque Isle Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine Distribution

… in western and southern states from sources in Mexico.  Dahlgren and his co-conspirators distributed the … traveled with co-conspirators on at least one such trip to Mexico and Arizona to obtain methamphetamine and transport …
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Mexican national and leader of Georgia-based drug trafficking organization sentenced to 17 years in prison for distributing large amounts of methamphetamine in Central Florida

… age 34, a/k/a Juan Cantu, a/k/a Stoner, of Tamaulipas, Mexico, to 17 years in federal prison for conspiring to … of Florida.  Flores-Jimenez, a native and citizen of Mexico, was ordered removed/deported from the United States …