PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-One Suspected El Paso Gang Affiliates Arrested for Alleged Drug Trafficking, 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) …
GENERAL INFORMATION

Headquarters News 2008

July 15, 2021
… 31, 2008 10 Major Drug Deffendants Extradicted from Mexico to the United States December 11, 2008 U.S. Cocaine …
July 15, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Lawrence man sentenced to 45 years in prison for operating major fentanyl trafficking organization

… himself as a fentanyl supplier located in Sinaloa, Mexico. Martinez told him, “what I look for is quality for …
PRESS RELEASE

Vallejo Man Sentenced to over 10 Years in Prison for Methamphetamine Offense

… on Jan. 24, 2020, Tomson was stopped driving back from Mexico and found to be in possession of hundreds of pills …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA encourages communities nationwide to Go Red for Red Ribbon

… and murdered by drug traffickers he was investigating in Mexico. After Special Agent Camarena’s death, people started …
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican National Pleads Guilty To Distributing Methamphetamine

… just as trial was set to begin, Martin Gasca-Rojas, 49, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing …
PRESS RELEASE

Two Indicted For Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute Heroin And Methamphetamine

… indictment today charging Gerardo Norzagaray-Pereda, 31, of Mexico, and Armando Sanchez-Ornelas, 23, of Phoenix, with …
PRESS RELEASE

Four Indicted In Methamphetamine Conspiracy

… Sanchez-Gaona, 24; and Edgardo Solorio-Camacho, 26; of Mexico, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and …
PRESS RELEASE

One Of Two Men Indicted In 11 Kilogram Heroin Conspiracy Pleads Guilty

… B. Wagner announced that Gerardo Norzagaray-Pereda, 31, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute …
PRESS RELEASE

Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

… 387-3956 FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Sanchez-(Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, was sentenced today to eight years in prison for …
PRESS RELEASE

Bakersfield Drug Dealer Sentenced To Over 11 Years In Prison

… aka Rene Salas-(Salas), 38, an undocumented alien from Mexico, was sentenced today to 11 years and eight months in …
PRESS RELEASE

Bay Area Brothers Sentenced For Ecstasy Trafficking

… organizations operating in Southern California and Mexico. The methamphetamine and cocaine were then …
PRESS RELEASE

Madera Cornfield Pot Farmer Sentenced

… Wagner announced today that Carlos Martinez, 31, of Oaxaca, Mexico, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison …
PRESS RELEASE

Madera County Marijuana Cultivator Sentenced

… to distribute marijuana. Pacheco is a native and citizen of Mexico and is subject to deportation upon completion of his …
PRESS RELEASE

Methamphetamine Traffickers Indicted

… 19, of Alhambra, and Rafael Alfonso Torres, 22, of Mexico, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and …
PRESS RELEASE

Coarsegold Cannabis Cultivator Sentenced

… Medina-Mendoza, aka Eduardo Nunez Medina, 49, of Guerrero, Mexico, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for …
PRESS RELEASE

Madera Vineyard Pot Grow Yields Five-Year Prison Sentence

… that Antonio Pérez, 40, an illegal alien from Guanajuato, Mexico, was sentenced to five years in prison, to be …
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

Mexican Illegal Alien and Convicted Felon Both Face Federal Charges After Norcross Drug Busts

… felon, and Arturo Carreno-Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico, face federal charges after law enforcement seized at … 27, of Chamblee, Georgia, and Arturo Carreno-Rivera, 45, of Mexico, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Elizabeth …
PRESS RELEASE

California Man Who Trafficked Narcotics to Connecticut Sentenced to More Than 6 Years in Federal Prison

… was receiving narcotics from sources in California via Mexico.  In February 2023, investigators seized two parcels … the shipment of kilogram-quantities of narcotics from Mexico to Connecticut.  Garcia sometimes traveled to …
PRESS RELEASE

“Operation SLO Ride” Dismantles Major Drug Trafficking Organization in Tulare County

… individuals now charged: Alberto “Beto” Alvarado, 53, of Mexico, is alleged to be the Mexico-based source of supply who directed the importation …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA El Paso SAC Thorne-James to address local media

… 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) …
PRESS RELEASE

Father and Son Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison in Large-Scale Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

… Defendants conspired to traffic cocaine and heroin from Mexico to Springfield area OCDETF/Task Force Drug …
GENERAL INFORMATION

Office of Training Programs

January 22, 2025
… special vetted SIU Teams in Ghana, Afghanistan, Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Dominican Republic, …
January 22, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA to kick off annual Red Ribbon Campaign

… Red Ribbon Campaign began after drug traffickers in Mexico tortured and brutally murdered Special Agent Enrique …
PRESS RELEASE

Statement from DEA Administrator Anne Milgram

… the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). CJNG is one of Mexico’s most violent and prolific drug trafficking …
PRESS RELEASE

Dual U.S.-Mexican citizen arrested for violations of the Kingpin Act

… known as “La Negra,” 33, who was residing in Guadalajara, Mexico, was arrested in Washington, D.C. Wednesday pursuant …
PRESS RELEASE

Observant bystander travelling through Indiana led DEA Chicago Field Division to historic 225 pound methamphetamine seizure

… United States is manufactured in industrial-scale labs in Mexico and ultimately smuggled into the United States. The …
GENERAL INFORMATION

Seattle News 2006

July 15, 2021
… Leads to Multiple Cells of Drug Organization Based in Mexico NOV 28, 2006 DEA's Seattle Division to Promote …
July 15, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Drug Enforcement Administration announces creation of U.S. Postal Service drug-free stamp

… in 1985 by drug traffickers he was investigating in Mexico. After his death, high school students signed …