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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. These counterfeit pills have been seized by DEA in …

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DEA Washington Chief Issues Public Safety Alert: Dangerous Increase in Fake Rx Pills Containing Fentanyl

… pills brought into the United States are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico. SAC Forget is focusing resources and working with …

PRESS RELEASE

Heroin And Methamphetamine Traffickers Convicted

… instances of heroin and methamphetamine trafficking from Mexico to Laredo, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas as well as … records from the ports of entry along the entry U.S.-Mexico border. Testimony of several witnesses, including …

PRESS RELEASE

Eleven Defendants Charged With Distributing Multi-Kilogram Amounts Of Heroin Or Cocaine Following DEA-Led Investigation

… and Mexican media sources, the Mexican SOS was killed in Mexico in approximately July of this year. The charges … in March to pick up the 20 kilograms of heroin, sent from Mexico. Other defendants charged separately as a result of …

PRESS RELEASE

More Than Two Dozen Identified In Massive Fraudulent Document Operation In Los Angeles

… Illinois and Texas, with connections to other states and Mexico. The document fraud rings supported a variety of … licenses for approximately 40 of the 50 states and within Mexico. The investigation of Serrano identified additional …

PRESS RELEASE

High-Ranking Members of Sinaloa Cartel Charged with Material Support of a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Narcoterrorism

… into southern Illinois and laundering the proceeds to Mexico. “The Sinaloa Cartel relies on drug trafficking to … into the United States and funneling the profits back into Mexico. Over approximately one week, the DEA, in conjunction … Cartel sourced drug distribution pipeline originating in Mexico that included the Southern District of Illinois, …

GENERAL INFORMATION

WANTED: REWARD OF UP TO $5 MILLION

January 22, 2025

… for the fentanyl precursor to then be smuggled into Mexico, where it would be combined with other chemicals to …

January 22, 2025

GENERAL INFORMATION

Dallas News 2006

July 15, 2021

… OCT 4, 2006 Operation 700 Ranch Round-Up SEP 26, 2006 New Mexico Man Gets 3 Years in Prison for Drugs Stemming from …

July 15, 2021

GENERAL INFORMATION

Phoenix News 2007

July 15, 2021

… November 2, 2007 Two Mexican Nationals Extradited from Mexico Found Guilty in Naco, Ariz. Drug Tunnel Case November …

July 15, 2021

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

Eight-week federal trial results in conviction of Chapo associates in Buffalo, NY

… contacts and a source of supply whose territory included Mexico, Arizona, California, and elsewhere. The source of … Gil, a/k/a Unc, a/k/a Ruben Gil Campos, a/k/a Mayor of Mexico, was convicted and is awaiting sentencing; …

PRESS RELEASE

Albuquerque Man Convicted of Federal Firearm Offenses

… 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) …

PRESS RELEASE

Organized Drug Crime Ring Attempted to Flood Alaskan Villages with Fentanyl, 54 Indicted

… state prison and communicated with his suppliers in Mexico and their brokers, leaders in California and Oregon, … the investigation, including some made internationally to Mexico. Defendants in this case include: 1. Alison Giacullo, …

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. Drug trafficking is also inextricably linked to …

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Greenville Man Sentenced To 84 Months In Federal Prison For Role In Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

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Drug Kingpin Indicted Following Record-Breaking Meth And Heroin Seizure

… and New York State Police investigators. Originating in Mexico, the drug shipment was first transported to Texas, … in mid-June. The load had already crossed the border from Mexico into Texas at the time the investigation began. …

STORY

Sinaloa Cartel Leader Charged with Narcoterrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking

February 26, 2026

… of the La Mayiza faction of the Sinaloa Cartel in Tijuana, Mexico, and among DEA’s most wanted fugitives. The $5 …

February 26, 2026

PRESS RELEASE

Dominican Republic official extradited to the United States to face narcotics trafficking charges

… allegedly worked directly with Sinaloa cartel members in Mexico who supplied him and his organization with heroin and …

STORY

DEA Omaha Division encourages awareness of prescription medication abuse

March 01, 2019

… pharmaceutical pills, are manufactured by drug cartels in Mexico and independent traffickers in the United States. …

March 01, 2019

STORY

DEA’s 2019 National Red Ribbon Rally

October 09, 2019

… special agent who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Mexico by drug traffickers. The rally proved to be a …

October 09, 2019

PRESS RELEASE

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera Has Arrived In The United States

… Department extends its gratitude to the Government of Mexico for their extensive cooperation and assistance in …

FUGITIVE

Jose Alfredo Hurtado-Olascoaga

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: International Drug Manufacturing and Distribution

PRESS RELEASE

Prosecution is Part of Homeland Security Task Force Effort to Combat Transnational Criminal Organizations

… Tulsa - (918) 459-9600 DALLAS, TX - An illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for his … Texas area distribution cells affiliated with Michoacán, Mexico-based brokers, who arranged for an Arlington, …

FUGITIVE

Alfonso Arzate-Garcia

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine

FUGITIVE

Oscar Manuel Gastellum-Iribe

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations:

Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 848(a), (b), and (e)(1)(A), 963, and 960a; Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2339B, and 924(c)(1)(A)
Conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, 1 kilogram or more of heroin, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, 400 grams or more of fentanyl and 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana

PRESS RELEASE

Three Members of an International Money Laundering Organization Charged with Laundering Millions of Dollars in Drug Proceeds

… of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into our country from Mexico,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice … imported into the United States, typically through Mexico. Ullah, Ullah, Huang, and their co-conspirators …

PRESS RELEASE

Nine Charged Following Investigation into Manufacturing and Interstate Trafficking of Counterfeit Oxycodone Pills Containing Fentanyl

… like the Cabrera brothers, as well as the Cartels in Mexico. There is no difference between a pill mill in Mexico and a boiler room in the Bronx because they both …

PRESS RELEASE

DEA Hosts Local and State Agencies at the El Paso Intelligence Center 2024 Law Enforcement Partners Summit

PRESS RELEASE

China-Based Chemical Company, Its Director and Senior Employees Indicted for Alleged Fentanyl Manufacturing and Distribution

… Aoks claimed that fentanyl precursors were most popular in Mexico and sold them in 25-kilogram fiber drums, each of … claimed that their profit on precursors sales to Mexico was worth the risk. From at least November 2016 to …

PRESS RELEASE

International money laundering, drug trafficking and illegal wildlife trade operation dismantled

… the Southern District of Georgia, and in Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere, were involved in the Wu … third-party business accounts located in the United States, Mexico, and Hong Kong, in an effort to hide the illegal …