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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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

Heroin conspiracy sends doctor to federal prison

… Texas – A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in Mexico has been ordered to federal prison following his … Moya is a medical doctor who operated a clinic in Reynosa, Mexico. Law enforcement stopped him June 6, 2018, for a …
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Sacramento Man Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Pill Trafficking that Resulted in an Overdose Death

… tens of thousands of fentanyl pills and cocaine from Mexico and distributing them in northern California and … extradition of Luis Lopez Zamora to the United States from Mexico. Assistant U.S. Attorney David W. Spencer is …
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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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; …
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Albuquerque Man Convicted of Federal Firearm Offenses

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano 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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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

… Bio Division Social Accounts X Omar Arellano 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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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
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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 …
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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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Three Charged in Conspiracy to Purchase $500,000 in Weapons for Cartel

… to be purchased in the United States and then smuggled into Mexico. There, those associated with CDN planned to use them … money laundering and conspiracy to export firearms to Mexico. Upon conviction, they face up to 20 years in prison …
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Guadalajara Man Sentenced for Distributing Methamphetamine

… Ramon Antonio Yanez-Gonzalez, aka “Junior,” of Guadalajara, Mexico to 235 months in federal prison today for … to smuggle methamphetamine into the Eagle Pass area from Mexico and distribute it to San Antonio, Austin and Dallas.  …
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Trio headed to prison for drug conspiracy

… Flores and Rodriguez’s role in providing the drugs from Mexico to Garza who sold it to his buyers in Louisiana for … times. Flores and Rodriguez had a source of supply in Mexico for the drugs. Garza also sold crack cocaine locally …
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Two men admit to selling cocaine in a parking lot

…   Frederico Hernandez, 26, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Miguel Angel Cruz-Recio, 41, Laredo, admitted … as he attempted to apply for entry into Laredo from Mexico at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge.   U.S. …
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International drug conspiracy sends Galveston man to federal prison

… a criminal organization that imported methamphetamine from Mexico and that the lengthy sentence was appropriate given … kilograms of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico. Castillo was responsible for recruiting individuals …
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Quiroga brothers sentenced in drug and bulk cash smuggling conspiracy

… distribute cocaine and conspiracy to smuggle bulk cash from Mexico, announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in … the time of their pleas, Quiroga traveled to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to pick up $12,000 at his brother’s direction. …