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One Suspect Charged As Feds Shutter 2 San Diego-Area Smuggling Tunnels

… in collaboration with their enforcement counterparts in Mexico, have uncovered two sophisticated smuggling tunnels … tunnel was detected Thursday morning as investigators from Mexico, in close coordination with special agents from U.S. …
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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
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PANEX South Defendant Pleads Guilty To Drug Importation Conspiracy

…  All of the cocaine was intended for importation, by way of Mexico, for subsequent distribution in the US.  After … co-conspirators embarked in go-fast (GFV) off the coast of Mexico. Thereafter, the Mexican Navy interdicted the GFVs, …
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14 Charged In Southern District Of Texas As Part Of Operation Dream Catcher

… 44, of Houston Jesus Ortiz-Flores aka “Alacran,” 26, of Mexico One defendant - Arturo Hernandez-Villegas, 50, of Mexico - was already in federal custody on other charges. …
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Stash House Operator Sentenced To More Than 10 Years In Federal Prison

… a taxi cab after it made entry into the United States from Mexico to the residence of Saucedo-Mata in Pharr. After the … after his incarceration. A legal resident alien from Mexico, Saucedo-Mata is expected to face deportation …
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
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
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Mexican Cocaine Supplier Convicted

… - Salvador Ibarra De-Alba, 48, of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has entered a plea of guilty for his role in a … kilograms or more of cocaine since 2008 from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to Houston and Miami, Fla., on a regular basis. …
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Drug Enforcement Administration Announces the Seizure of Over 379 million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

… CJNG Cartels is being mass-produced at secret factories in Mexico with chemicals sourced largely from China. In 2021, …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Awareness Day

… members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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Seventeen Colombians Indicted In Eastern District Of Texas Drug Conspiracy

… responsible for sending cocaine from Colombia and Mexico to the United States.    The Colombian National (CNP) … crime problem.  Invariably, the leads always came back to Mexico and to Colombia.  Happily, we have discovered …
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DEA Releases 2015 Drug Threat Assessment: Heroin And Painkiller Abuse Continue To Spike

… of the groups, like the Sinaloa Cartel, use the Arizona/Mexico border as the entry point for their illicit cargo to … pound quantities of methamphetamine have proliferated in Mexico, as the precursor controls in that country are not as …
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Tony Torrez Charged With Violating Federal Narcotics Trafficking And Firearms Laws

… 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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California-Based Heroin Distributor Sentenced To More Than 10 Years In Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges

… responsible for smuggling bulk drug shipments from Mexico. Court records show that Gasca used an extensive … ongoing investigation into drug trafficking of heroin from Mexico. Over the course of the investigation, law …
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Three Members Of International Organization Of Money Launderers For The Largest Drug Cartels Arrested

… world to launder over $5 billion for drug cartels based in Mexico and Colombia. “As alleged, the defendants and their … and China on behalf of drug trafficking organizations in Mexico and Colombia to fund purchases of counterfeit goods …
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Federal Jury Finds Former Owner Of Albuquerque Smoke Shop Guilty On Synthetic Drug Trafficking Charges

… 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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International Narcotics Trafficker Extradited To Face Drug Trafficking And Narco-Terrorism Charges

… organization responsible for supplying members of the Mexico based Sinaloa Drug Cartel thousands of kilograms of … of cocaine were then transported to the United States, via Mexico for distribution. The proceeds from the drug …
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Second Trafficker Targeting Eastern North Carolina Sentenced For Methamphetamine Conspiracy

… but throughout North Carolina, the United States and Mexico. These organizations are responsible for the … the related remittance of illegal drug proceeds back into Mexico. The investigation of this case was conducted by the …
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Mexican Citizen Sentenced to Nearly 20 Years for Fentanyl Distribution

… announced that Guadalupe Reyes, Jr., 50, a citizen of Mexico living in Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. …
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700,000 Blue M30 Pills Containing Fentanyl Seized Inside Roofing Shingles and Residence

… and Miguel Angel Sesma, 30, a legal permanent resident from Mexico living in Phoenix, were charged on Tuesday by federal …
Valencia-Zavala, Fernando
FUGITIVE

Jesus Manuel Urias-Castaneda

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: 21 USC 846
Hildegardo, Jaimes-Sierra
FUGITIVE

Jaimes-Sierra Hildegardo

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine
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Head Of The Gulf Cartel Sentenced To Federal Prison For Drug Trafficking

… Juan Francisco Saenz-Tamez, 23, of Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty on Jan. 13, 2015 to distribution and … into the large-scale trafficking of illegal drugs from Mexico into the Eastern District of Texas led to the …
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Los Zetas Kidnapers/Arms Traffickers Headed To Federal Prison

… to deliver the drug proceeds to Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. On Sept. 14, 2010, approximately $2 million was … warehouse and was supposed to transport it to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Co-conspirators located the subject who stole the …
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Three Plead Guilty for Roles in Conspiracy to Distribute Nine Kilograms of Cocaine

… of $230,000 in drug proceeds that he sought to send to Mexico. On April 20, 2022, Lara was stopped on Interstate-84 …
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Seven Charged With Drug Trafficking As Part Of Nationwide Enforcement Targeting Mexican Cartels

… and 11 foreign cities within Central America, Europe, Mexico, South America and elsewhere, this initiative has … cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States.  These cartels are also …
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Canada Extradites Second Drug Trafficking Defendant To Colorado For Prosecution

… six others, in 2010 for the importation of cocaine from Mexico.  The cocaine was brought to Colorado, where it was … others, conspired to import into the United States from Mexico, and then export from the United States into Canada, …
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Leader Of Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

… Indiana announced today that Agustin Lozano, 35, Sinaola, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William … role in a drug trafficking organization that operated from Mexico, to Chicago, to Indianapolis. In July 2010, an …
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Drug Kingpin Extradited: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usaga, Colombia’s Most Influential Drug Trafficking And Armed BACRIM Criminal Group

… 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 …
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Drug Trafficking Co-conspirators Head To Federal Prison

… Vallejo, 35, a U.S. citizen residing in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, engaged in a conspiracy to distribute bulk … to Georgia and returned drug proceeds to Laredo and into Mexico. Today, U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo …