PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces Tip Line, Wanted Poster For Chapo

August 05, 2015
… 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 …
August 05, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera Faces Charges In New York For Leading A Continuing Criminal Enterprise And Other Drug-Related Charges

January 20, 2017
… 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 …
January 20, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise

July 30, 2020
… 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 …
July 30, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Jury Convicts Los Zetas Drug Cartel Sicario And Plaza Boss

July 19, 2016
… 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. …
July 19, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Los Zetas Drug Cartel Sicario And Piedras Negras Plaza Boss Sentenced To Life In Federal Prison

June 28, 2017
… 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. …
June 28, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Operation Four Horsemen Results In Millions Going Back To Law Enforcement Agencies

February 03, 2011
… 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 …
February 03, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Investigations Lead To Largest Treasury Kingpin Designation Against Mexican Cartel

August 09, 2017
… 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 …
August 09, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

High-Ranking Gulf Cartel Leader Extradited To United States

August 23, 2011
… 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. …
August 23, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Alleged Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited To The United States To Face Criminal Enterprise, Drug, And Money-Laundering Charges

November 09, 2012
… 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 …
November 09, 2012
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September 30, 2025
… of illicit fentanyl to the United States, and one of Mexico’s most powerful, influential, and ruthless …
September 30, 2025
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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

February 21, 2023
… 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 …
February 21, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Member Of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced

June 08, 2017
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Rodriguez, 50, a U.S. citizen who formerly resided in Mexico, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las … large amounts of cocaine, marijuana and heroin from Mexico into the United States.  The indictment alleged that …
June 08, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Announces Barrio Azteca Lieutenant Who Ordered Consulate Murders In Ciudad Juarez Sentenced To Life In Prison

April 24, 2014
… “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 …
April 24, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican Cartel Member Sentenced To Prison For Conspiracy Involving Over 400 Kilograms Of Methamphetamine

January 22, 2016
… 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, …
January 22, 2016
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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

June 11, 2018
… 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 …
June 11, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin Trafficking Chargest

April 11, 2017
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico . ALBUQUERQUE, N.M - Joshua Greene, 19, of … Uballez are prosecuting the case as part of the New Mexico Heroin and Opioid Prevention and (HOPE) Initiative.  …
April 11, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Mexican Nationals Sentenced for Roles in Black Market Peso Exchange Money Laundering Scheme

July 21, 2025
… to move drug trafficking proceeds through Texas to Mexico. Mauricio Anzures-Zarate, 53, Mexico City, Mexico, and Beatriz Salcedo-Carreon, 63, Guadalajara, …
July 21, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Pawankumar Jain Pleads Guilty To Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Painkillers And Health Care Fraud

February 11, 2016
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Pawankumar Jain, 63, a physician … June 2012, and subsequently revoked in Dec. 2012 by the New Mexico Medical Board.  The 79 dispensing counts in the …
February 11, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

Man Pleads Guilty In New York To Conspiring With Iranian Military Officials To Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador To The United States

October 17, 2012
… 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 …
October 17, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

Member And Associate Of Barrio Azteca Gang Plead Guilty To Racketeering Conspiracy

September 22, 2011
… 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 …
September 22, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Juárez Cartel Leader Sentenced to Prison for Drug Trafficking

November 01, 2022
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Luis Carlos Vásquez-Barragán, 51, of Nicolás Bravo, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced to prison for possession with intent …
November 01, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Sinaloa Cartel Trafficker Sentenced

April 06, 2018
… 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 …
April 06, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Davon Lymon On Narcotics Trafficking And Firearms Charges

December 03, 2015
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … office of the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the New Mexico State Police, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
December 03, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Member’s Guilty Plea Unsealed; Zambada-Niebla’s Cooperation With U.S. Revealed

April 10, 2014
… CHICAGO - -A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico pleaded guilty a year ago to participating in a vast … Chief Judge Ruben Castillo.  Zambada-Niebla was arrested in Mexico in 2009, and he was extradited to the United States … Cartel.  Zambada-Garcia is a fugitive believed to be in Mexico, and Guzman-Loera is in Mexican custody after being …
April 10, 2014
PRESS RELEASE

DEA NEWS: Manssor Arbabsiar Gets 25 Years In Plot To Kill Saudi Ambassador

May 30, 2013
… case started when Arbabsiar approached a DEA informant in Mexico in an attempt to hatch this act of terror. To read … this conspiracy, ARBABSIAR met on a number of occasions in Mexico with a DEA confidential (“CS-1”) who posed as an … other terrorist organizations. ARBABSIAR met with CS-1 in Mexico on several occasions between May 2011 and July 2011. …
May 30, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-One Individuals Charged With Using Fraudulent Prescriptions To Obtain Oxycodone

February 14, 2013
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … and Executive Director Larry Loring, R.Ph., of the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy. Twenty of the 21 defendants were … DEA’s Tactical Diversion Squad in Albuquerque and the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy in response to the epidemic …
February 14, 2013
PRESS RELEASE

Six Albuquerque Residents Indicted On Federal Robbery, Firearms And Prescription Drug Trafficking Crimes Arising Out Of Pharmacy Robberies

April 29, 2015
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … which seeks to reduce opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, … recent rash of pharmacy robberies is an example of why New Mexico’s violent crime and opioid abuse and overdose death …
April 29, 2015
PRESS RELEASE

Former Head of Gulf Cartel Receives Life Sentence for Importing Kilos of Drugs

September 15, 2022
… role in conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States, announced Drug Enforcement … was a municipal police officer in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.   During his association with the Gulf Cartel, … controlled numerous plazas along the United States and Mexico border including Matamoros, Rio Bravo, Reynosa, …
September 15, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Jesse Denver Hanes Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Conviction On Federal Firearms And Carjacking Charges Arising Out Of Shooting Of Hatch Police Officer

March 01, 2018
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Attorney Mark D’Antonio, Chief Pete N. Kassetas of the New Mexico State Police, and Doña Ana County Sheriff Enrique … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
March 01, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

Thirteen Cibola County Residents Charged With Drug Trafficking And Firearms Offenses

March 07, 2013
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Paso Field Division, and Chief Robert Shilling of the New Mexico State Police. Eleven of the 13 defendants were … in Cibola County, which was led by the DEA and the New Mexico State Police with assistance from the Grants Police …
March 07, 2013