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Barrio Azteca Gang Member Pleads Guilty To Racketeering Conspiracy

… 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) …  The BA is primarily based in West Texas; Juarez, Mexico; and throughout state and federal prisons in the …
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Barrio Azteca Gang Associate Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Participating In Racketeering Conspiracy

… 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) … criminal organization based in West Texas; Juarez, Mexico; and throughout state and federal prisons in the …
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Mexican Cartel Leaders Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, A.k.a. “La Barbie,” And Carlos Montemayor Gonzalez, Extradited To The U.S.

… money laundering, are among 13 defendants extradited from Mexico this afternoon to face pending charges in the United … and Montemayor are alleged to be high-level members of Mexico’s Beltran-Leyva Cartel and were arrested in Mexico on …
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Sunland Park Woman Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

… 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) … quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico and distributed the drugs in New Mexico, Texas, …
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Five Residents Of Valencia And Socorro Counties Arrested On Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Charges

… 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) … and Ovidio Estrada, 37, both residents of Los Lunas, New Mexico. Members of the organization included Carmen Diaz, …
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Mexican Citizen Pleads Guilty To Role In Organization Responsible For Flying Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Cocaine To The U.S. And Laundering Money From Its Sales

… and money laundering organization operating out of Mexico from 2002-2008 has been convicted, announced Drug … Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Richard Garcia-Sanchez, 40, of Mexico City, Mexico, pleaded guilty today for his roles in these …
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Interagency operation nets indictments in drug conspiracy

… 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) … federal indictments of 18 individuals in the Roswell, New Mexico, area on charges ranging from distribution of …
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DEA Helps Foil Iranian Terror Plot

… Arbabsiar allegedly met on a number of occasions in Mexico with a DEA confidential (CS-1) who has posed as an … The complaint alleges that Arbabsiar met with CS-1 in Mexico on May 24, 2011, where Arbabsiar inquired as to … and July 2011, the complaint alleges, Arbabsiar returned to Mexico and held additional meetings with CS-1, where …
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DEA Announces Tip Line, Wanted Poster For Chapo

… tip line where the general public in the United States, Mexico, Central  and South America can report any … lives and communities throughout the United States and Mexico and his capture is a high priority for DEA,” said … - Guzman-Loera was arrested on June 9, 1993, in Mexico on charges related to murder and drug trafficking and …
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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera Faces Charges In New York For Leading A Continuing Criminal Enterprise And Other Drug-Related Charges

… York, following his extradition to the United States from Mexico, alleging that he was operating a continuing criminal … relating to the bulk smuggling from the United States to Mexico of more than $14 billion in cash proceeds from … of him. We will honor their sacrifice and will honor Mexico’s commitment to combat narco-trafficking by pursuing …
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Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise

… Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, with engaging in a continuing … permitted the Sinaloa Cartel to operate with impunity in Mexico. Garcia Luna was arrested on Dec. 9, 2019 by federal … trafficking activities. From 2001 to 2005, Garcia Luna led Mexico’s Federal Investigation Agency, and from 2006 to …
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Federal Jury Convicts Los Zetas Drug Cartel Sicario And Plaza Boss

… numerous murders and other acts of violence in Northern Mexico in furtherance of a drug distribution operation … for the murders of at least 29 individuals in Northern Mexico between January 2009 and July 2015. In one incident, … in the massacre of numerous people in Allende, Coahuila, Mexico, at the hands of Los Zetas members in March of 2011. …
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Los Zetas Drug Cartel Sicario And Piedras Negras Plaza Boss Sentenced To Life In Federal Prison

… drug trafficking and weapons trafficking in Northern Mexico in furtherance of a drug distribution operation … for the murders of at least 29 individuals in Northern Mexico between January 2009 and July 2015. In one incident, … of numerous people in Piedras Negras and Allende, Coahuila, Mexico, at the hands of Los Zetas members in March of 2011. …
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Operation Four Horsemen Results In Millions Going Back To Law Enforcement Agencies

… over $23 million in cash which was on its way back to Mexico to fuel the cartels. By taking money out of the … initiated an investigation which ultimately uncovered two Mexico-based drug trafficking cells operating in the Atlanta … shipments of cocaine that arrived in tractor-trailers from Mexico. After the drug traffickers received the cocaine …
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DEA Investigations Lead To Largest Treasury Kingpin Designation Against Mexican Cartel

… OFAC Action Targets 22 Mexican Nationals and 43 Entities in Mexico, including Flores Organization WASHINGTON, D.C. - As … also designated 21 Mexican nationals and 42 entities in Mexico for providing support to the narcotics trafficking … from engaging in transactions with them. The Government of Mexico’s Procuraduría General de la Repú(PGR) seized diverse …
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High-Ranking Gulf Cartel Leader Extradited To United States

… Gulf Cartel, has been extradited to the United States from Mexico to face drug conspiracy charges, announced … is part of a concerted, combined, and coordinated effort by Mexico and the United States to target the command and … the Gulf Cartel’s drug trafficking activities in Camargo, Mexico,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. …
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Alleged Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited To The United States To Face Criminal Enterprise, Drug, And Money-Laundering Charges

… drug kingpin Luis Rodriguez-Olivera was extradited from Mexico to the United States yesterday and will be arraigned … to the United States. Rodriguez-Olivera was arrested in Mexico on a provisional warrant issued from the Eastern … by DEA offices in New York, Texas, and Guadalajara, Mexico, and ICE/HSI, in New York, with assistance provided …
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Ex-Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna Convicted of Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Taking Millions in Cash Bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel

… The Once-Highest Ranking Law Enforcement Official in Mexico Is Now a Convicted Felon BROOKLYN, NY - Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was convicted today by a federal … As proven at trial, from 2006 to 2012, Garcia Luna was Mexico’s top law enforcement official, serving as Secretary …
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Member Of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced

… 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) … Rodriguez, 50, a U.S. citizen who formerly resided in Mexico, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las …
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DEA Announces Barrio Azteca Lieutenant Who Ordered Consulate Murders In Ciudad Juarez Sentenced To Life In Prison

… “51,” “Guero,” “Pecas,” “Tury,” and “86,” 35, of Chihuahua, Mexico, the Barrio Azteca Lieutenant who ordered the March … of a cartel conflict over a drug trafficking route from Mexico into the United States,” said Acting Assistant … and $785,500 in forfeiture. After his extradition from Mexico on June 28, 2012, a federal jury found Gallegos …
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Mexican Cartel Member Sentenced To Prison For Conspiracy Involving Over 400 Kilograms Of Methamphetamine

… our country and are responsible for much of the violence in Mexico today. This sentencing illustrates how DEA and its … a group affiliated with the Knights Templar drug cartel in Mexico.  His co-conspirators sent methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States in a variety of ways, …
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Mexican cartel leader Edgar Valdez-Villareal, a/k/a “La Barbie,” sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking and money laundering

… was born in the U.S. and rose to be a high-level leader of Mexico’s Beltran-Leyva Cartel, has been sentenced to 49 … while ruthlessly working his way up the ranks of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, leaving in his wake …
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Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin Trafficking Chargest

… 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) … to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico . ALBUQUERQUE, N.M - Joshua Greene, 19, of …
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Mexican Nationals Sentenced for Roles in Black Market Peso Exchange Money Laundering Scheme

… to move drug trafficking proceeds through Texas to Mexico. Mauricio Anzures-Zarate, 53, Mexico City, Mexico, and Beatriz Salcedo-Carreon, 63, Guadalajara, …
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Pawankumar Jain Pleads Guilty To Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Painkillers And Health Care Fraud

… 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) … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Pawankumar Jain, 63, a physician …
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Man Pleads Guilty In New York To Conspiring With Iranian Military Officials To Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador To The United States

… at the direction of these co-conspirators, he traveled to Mexico on several occasions during 2011 in order to arrange … do so.   Arbabsiar traveled to and from the United States, Mexico and Iran and was in telephone contact with his … to which Arbabsiar pleaded: Arbabsiar met with CS-1 in Mexico on multiple occasions between May 2011 and July …
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Member And Associate Of Barrio Azteca Gang Plead Guilty To Racketeering Conspiracy

… among other things, the March 13, 2010, murders in Juarez, Mexico, of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and the … state and federal prisons in the United States and Mexico. The gang has a military-like command structure - … heroin, cocaine and marijuana into the United States from Mexico. BA members and associates also allegedly charge a …
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Juárez Cartel Leader Sentenced to Prison for Drug Trafficking

… 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) … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Luis Carlos Vásquez-Barragán, 51, of …
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Sinaloa Cartel Trafficker Sentenced

… for shipping methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin from Mexico for importation into San Diego. According to court … arrangements for tractor-trailers to travel from Sinaloa, Mexico to Baja California, Mexico, carrying methamphetamine, … Affairs , San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center, Mexico’s Secretaria de la Defensa (SEDENA), Mexico’s …