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Smuggling Over $2M in Fentanyl and Other Narcotics Lands Women in Prison

… women purchasing firearms in Houston and exporting them to Mexico. Morales was also previously sentenced to a 120-month …
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Attorney General William P. Barr Joins President Donald J. Trump to Announce Expansion of Operation Legend

… the leadership of U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico John C. Anderson, these federal investigators will …
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Undocumented Man Gets 46 Months in Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl

… (417) 888-9800 EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A man originally from Mexico was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison in a …
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Attorney General William P. Barr joins President Donald J. Trump to announce significant cases stemming from Joint Task Force Vulcan

… foreign law enforcement partners, including El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala; designated priority MS-13 …
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DEA releases 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment

… Heroin available in U.S. markets is primarily sourced from Mexico, where opium poppy cultivation and heroin production …
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DEA Report: Counterfeit Pills Fueling U.S. Fentanyl And Opioid Crisis

… compounds and marketing them to drug trafficking groups in Mexico, Canada and the United States.  In addition to being …
Ivan Archivaldo Guzman-Salazar
FUGITIVE

Ivan Archivaldo Guzman-Salazar

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substance; Attempt/Conspiracy-Controlled Substance-Import/Export with Intent to Distribute
21, U.S.C. ss 963,846, 848(a), 848(b), and 848(c); 18 U.S.C. ss 924(c)(1)(A), 924(c)(1)(B)(ii), 924(0), 1956 (h), 1956(f), 3238, and 2.
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Mexican National Sentenced for 88 Pounds of Meth Found in Car

… co-defendant Gustavo Renteria-Rojas, 39, a citizen of Mexico residing in Evanston, Ill., on April 5, 2021. Their …
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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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Rocky Mountain Diversion Investigator Named “Outstanding Citizen of the Year”

… to dismantle an international poly-drug DTO based out of Mexico, which was operating in Montana.  The complex, …
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DEA Releases 2015 Drug Threat Assessment: Heroin And Painkiller Abuse Continue To Concern

… are responsible for much of the extreme violence seen in Mexico, as they battle for turf and attack public officials …
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Mexican National sentenced to 26 years in prison for drug trafficking conspiracy and gun possession

… defendant’s long criminal history in the United States and Mexico. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement …
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DEA and USPS unveil Drug Free USA Forever stamp

… the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in Mexico in 1985. Participants wear a red ribbon or red to …
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Dallas Man Sentenced to Life Over Meth Concealed in Cauliflower

… revealed the methamphetamine was imported from Mexico. Further testimony revealed that the defendant had …
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Washington Jury Finds Mexican National with Ties to the Jalisco Cartel Guilty of Trafficking in Hundreds of Pounds of Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine in Eastern Washington and Montana

… Esquivel-Bolanos (a/k/a “Colorado”), age 45, of Guerrero, Mexico. Esquivel-Bolanos was found guilty on multiple drug …
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DEA Releases 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment

… prevalent. Inbound seizures of methamphetamine from Mexico have increased every year since 2010, but domestic …
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Drug Dealer Sentenced to 27 Years for Meth Trafficking

… mainly out of Arizona, obtained methamphetamine from Mexico and trafficked both methamphetamine and heroin from …
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Pharr Resident gets Significant Sentence for Attempting to Sell Narcotics

… kilograms of cocaine from a narcotics supplier located in Mexico. They set a time and location to meet with Rueben and …
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Authorities Arrest Seven This Morning In Connection With Liquid/Crystal Methamphetamine Distribution Operation In The Odessa Area

… 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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Colombian National Sentenced to Over 17 Years for Recruiting Mariners to Traffic Cocaine to the Sinaloa Cartel

… Ocean, destined for Sinaloa Cartel members in Oaxaca, Mexico. Pineda-Torres recruited SPSS crew members for these …
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Boston Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Receive 24 Kilos of Cocaine from a Mexican Drug Cartel Source

… cocaine from a drug-trafficking organization (DTO) based in Mexico. A member of the Mexican DTO subsequently instructed …
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Leader of Drug Trafficking Organization Facing Up to Life in Prison Following Jury Verdict

… received large amounts of methamphetamine from sources in Mexico, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia. He then transported the …
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Porterville Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Distribution

… with Pedro Delgado-Montenegro, 42, a native and citizen of Mexico, and James Cox, 58, of Porterville, to distribute …
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International Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 8 Years

… of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana from Mexico in the Kansas City area. According to court …
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DEA Houston Field Division Announces the Seizure of Over 7 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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Arizona Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute 5 Kilograms of Fentanyl

… fentanyl. Jose Manuel Ramos Lemus, 51, a citizen of Mexico residing in Arizona, previously pleaded guilty before …
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Lubbock Man Sentenced to 35 years in Federal Prison for East Texas Drug Trafficking

… for the drugs, including cocaine, which were imported from Mexico, and transported from the Rio Grande Valley through …
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Gainesville Man Convicted of Drug Trafficking and Firearm Offense

… convicted Edwin Giovanny Mendoza-Verdugo, 20, of Sinaloa, Mexico, on one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled …
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Ringleader of Major Drug Trafficking and Money-Laundering Conspiracy in St. George Sentenced to Prison

… to import and distribute dangerous and deadly drugs from Mexico. Between October 2021 and February 2022, agents …
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Two Tucson Based Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Sentences

… 1.56 kilograms of heroin into the United States from Mexico through the vehicle lane at the port of entry in …