PRESS RELEASE

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

September 27, 2021
… 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 …
September 27, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

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

September 27, 2021
… 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 …
September 27, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

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

October 01, 2021
… 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 …
October 01, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

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

September 27, 2021
… 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 …
September 27, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Niagara Falls man sentenced to 78 months for role in drug conspiracy tied to Sinaloa Cartel

April 09, 2019
… contacts and a source of supply whose territory included Mexico, Arizona, California and elsewhere. The source of … Jose Ruben Gil, aka Unc, aka Ruben Gil Campos, aka Mayor of Mexico, was convicted and is awaiting sentencing; Sonia …
April 09, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Attorney's Office and DEA Announce Federal Charges Against Albuquerque Based Drug Trafficking Organization

October 29, 2024
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional …
October 29, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Australian National Pleads Guilty to Participating in Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Conspiracy

August 08, 2024
… of cocaine and methamphetamine from South America and Mexico, to Australia and Europe. Further, Curry, his … for a load of cocaine to be sent from Colombia through Mexico to the U.S., specifically Los Angeles, and from there …
August 08, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Florida Pilot Involved in Cocaine Trafficking Scheme is Sentenced

June 02, 2024
… cocaine would be loaded onto trucks for transport through Mexico into the U.S.  A fake flight plan filed with … the purpose of unlawful importation. Sanchez, a citizen of Mexico, was arrested in Asuncion, Paraguay, on March 25, …
June 02, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Florida Pilot Involved in Cocaine Trafficking Scheme is Sentenced

May 30, 2024
… cocaine would be loaded onto trucks for transport through Mexico into the U.S.  A fake flight plan filed with … the purpose of unlawful importation. Sanchez, a citizen of Mexico, was arrested in Asuncion, Paraguay, on March 25, …
May 30, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Approximately 40 Individuals Arrested in Multi-State Drug Trafficking Takedown

January 24, 2024
… nofdoutreach@dea.gov Defendants are from East Mississippi, Mexico, California, Texas, and Alabama Jackson, Miss. – … Scott, and Jasper counties in Mississippi, as well as Mexico, California, Texas, and Alabama. The charges stem …
January 24, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 09, 2023
… 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 …
May 09, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 05, 2023
… 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 …
May 05, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Albuquerque career criminal sentenced to life imprisonment for heroin distribution resulting in death of Cameron Weiss

January 23, 2020
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional …
January 23, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

“M30 King of Fresno” and 17 Members of His Drug Trafficking Ring Charged

April 01, 2022
… Jr., of Fresno; Justin Dwayne Riddle, of Las Cruces, New Mexico; Alma Garza, of Fresno; Juan Valencia Jr., of Fresno; … Urias Jr. was obtaining, directly from sources in Mexico, tens of thousands of counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills …
April 01, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

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

September 27, 2021
… 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 …
September 27, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

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

September 28, 2021
… 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 …
September 28, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

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

September 27, 2021
… 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 …
September 27, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Drug trafficking organizer sentenced to prison as part of a multi defendant drug investigation and prosecution

March 07, 2019
… ring alleging they brought cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico which then travelled through California to Metro … quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico to California.  The drugs were then transported to …
March 07, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Operation Legend: Update on federal charges

September 04, 2020
… the operation was expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 22, 2020; to Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, … been charged with other violent crimes. Albuquerque, New Mexico  35 defendants have been charged with federal crimes …
September 04, 2020
STORY

Keeping Area Families Safe This Summer

July 16, 2021
Fentanyl
… deadly presence around 2014, while assigned to DEA in Mexico. Now, the U.S. is in the midst of a fentanyl-fueled … in the U.S., and the ingredients used to make it, come from Mexico. Cartels are ordering tonnage amounts of raw …
July 16, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Kingpin Extradited: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group

April 24, 2018
… involved in multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and Central America for ultimate importation into the … cocaine, as well as the receipt of shipments of cocaine in Mexico and Central America. Clan Usuga also controlled …
April 24, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Two In Marijuana Trafficking Investigation

June 14, 2013
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional …
June 14, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Jury Convicts Mexican National On Heroin Trafficking Charges

August 06, 2014
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional …
August 06, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Laredo-Based Kingpin With Ties To Los Zetas Sentenced To Life In Federal Prison

December 12, 2011
… about shipping millions of dollars in drug proceeds back to Mexico for delivery to the Gulf Cartel/Zetas. During … eat. He also discusses having sent millions of dollars to Mexico in tractors for loads of drugs delivered in the …
December 12, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

22 Alleged Gang Members Indicted For Multiple Violent Crimes

November 08, 2017
… all originally from Houston but believed to have fled to Mexico; and Israel Juarez Sifuentes, 43, and Melissa … brothels in apartments throughout Houston as well as in Mexico. The primary location was the Carriage Way Apartment …
November 08, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

51 Arrested In Major Heroin Takedown

June 10, 2015
… that the precursor chemicals came from companies in Mexico, Germany, Japan, and China. Historically, this is not … The source of that fentanyl was traced to a single lab in Mexico. When that lab was identified and dismantled, the …
June 10, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Fresno, Tulare And Kern Counties’ Marijuana Prosecution Update

April 15, 2013
… her prison term, Abarca will be subject to deportation to Mexico. Abarca pleaded guilty at the beginning of this year, … his prison sentence, Becerra is subject to deportation to Mexico. This case is the product of an investigation by the …
April 15, 2013
STORY

Reward Offer of Up to $5 Million for Information Leading to Arrest and/or Conviction of Leader of FTO ‘Los Choneros’

December 11, 2025
… of cocaine from South America, through Central American and Mexico, to the United States and elsewhere.   On September …
December 11, 2025
DOCUMENT

Justice Department Announces Eight Indictments Against China Based Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Employees

October 03, 2023
DEA Administrator Remarks
… xylazine, and nitazenes into our country and into Mexico. These chemicals are used to make fentanyl and make …
October 03, 2023
GENERAL INFORMATION

Denver News 2009

July 15, 2021
… Guilty to Traffciking Massive Amounts of Marijuana from Mexico to the United States October 22, 2009 Members or …
July 15, 2021