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Juárez Cartel Leader Sentenced to Prison for Drug Trafficking

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

… 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) … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
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High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Member’s Guilty Plea Unsealed; Zambada-Niebla’s Cooperation With U.S. Revealed

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

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

… 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) … and Executive Director Larry Loring, R.Ph., of the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy. Twenty of the 21 defendants were …
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Six Albuquerque Residents Indicted On Federal Robbery, Firearms And Prescription Drug Trafficking Crimes Arising Out Of Pharmacy Robberies

… 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) … recent rash of pharmacy robberies is an example of why New Mexico’s violent crime and opioid abuse and overdose death …
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Two Colorado Women Charged in Multi State Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Conspiracy

… 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) … that allegedly funneled methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico through New Mexico into other locations in the United …
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Former Head of Gulf Cartel Receives Life Sentence for Importing Kilos of Drugs

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

… 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) … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
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Thirteen Cibola County Residents Charged With Drug Trafficking And Firearms 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) … Paso Field Division, and Chief Robert Shilling of the New Mexico State Police. Eleven of the 13 defendants were …
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Gulf Cartel Plaza Boss Heads To Federal Prison

… as the Gulf Cartel, headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, which imports, warehouses, transports and … within the United States, the money would be transported to Mexico to further the aims of this criminal enterprise. … 2010. San Fernando is an important thoroughfare in Northern Mexico and narcotics commonly pass through San Fernando on …
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Cooperation Between United States and Mexican Law Enforcement Leads to Significant Actions Against Transnational Drug Trafficking Organization

… organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, along the U.S.-Mexico border. After extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, Fiscalía General …
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El Paso Division Arrests For Project Delirium

… 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) … Paso Division, which covers Far West Texas and all of New Mexico, were part of the nationwide takedown in Project …
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El Paso, Texas Man Sentenced To Twenty Years In Federal Prison For Heroin Trafficking Conviction

… 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) … DEA’s El Paso Division, Chief Pete N. Kassetas of the New Mexico State Police and Chief Terry Sisneros of the Raton …
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DEA Leads Largest U.S. Strike Against La Familia Cartel Twenty-Month Series Of Investigations Lead To Nearly 2,000 Arrests, Over $60 Million Seized

… operations of Mexican drug cartels in the United States and Mexico,” said Deputy Attorney General James Cole. “Today, we … the Secretariat of Public Security, the Government of Mexico has seen increased results in their fight against the drug trafficking organizations,” said Mexico’s Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna. …
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Three Defendants Arrested During 2023 Joint Enforcement Operation in Carlsbad Plead Guilty to Federal Drug 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) … send multiple firearms and a black jeep to an individual in Mexico. Gonzalez arranged for Purdy and Maldonado to pick up …
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Federal Jury Finds Career Offender From Albuquerque Guilty Of Crack Trafficking And Firearms Charges

… 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) … Office and federal law enforcement agencies work with New Mexico’s District Attorneys and state, local and tribal law …
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Leader of Houston-Based DTO Pleads Guilty to Leading Large-Scale Meth Distribution and Importation Conspiracy

… large numbers of firearms from the United States into Mexico.  The organization then traded the firearms for … of kilograms of crystal and liquid methamphetamine from Mexico into Texas and further distributed it throughout the … or “CDH,” because it was based in Houston and had ties to Mexico-based drug trafficking cartels.  CDH was also an …
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Leader of International Drug Money Laundering Organization Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

… announced that Jesus Rodriguez-Jimenez, 47, of Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison by United … ran an international money laundering business with ties to Mexico, Italy, Hungary, Panama, and China, facilitating the … of dollars in drug proceeds on behalf of drug cartels in Mexico and Central America.  Through a web of front …
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Project Below The Beltway Targets Sinaloa And Juarez Cartels And Affiliated Violent Street Gangs Nationwide

… 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) … Office, the Ector County District Attorney’s Office, New Mexico’s 13th Judicial District Attorney’s (Bernalillo …
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In a Landmark Ruling, Mexican Court Upholds U.S. Forfeiture Order Authorizing Seizure of Drug Cartel Leader’s Real Estate

… of real property located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico pursuant to a request for mutual legal assistance … represents the United States’ groundbreaking use of Mexico’s new statute to divest drug cartel leader Rafael …
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DEA-Led Operation Dismantles Clovis-Based Drug Trafficking Organization

… 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) … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Towanda Thorne-James, Special Agent in Charge of …
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Head Of The Quintero Drug Trafficking Enterprise Sentenced To Federal Prison

… TX - Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 69, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, has been sentenced to 222 months in prison and … multi-ton loads of marijuana to the United States from Mexico, using specially altered natural gas tanker trucks, … Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice and Mexico’s Procuraduria General De La (Office of the General …
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United States Seizes Luxury Condo Allegedly Owned By Former Mexican Governor

… South Padre Island alleged to be owned by former Tamaulipas Mexico Governor Tomas Yarrington has been successfully … of the property. Rodriguez is currently in custody in Mexico. From 1998 to at least 2005, the complaint states … schemes. Yarrington was the former mayor of Matamoros, Mexico, from 1992 to 1995; governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 …
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Mexican Cartel Leader Edgar Valdez-Villareal, A/k/a "La Barbie," Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

… in the United States and rose to be a high-level leader of Mexico's Beltran-Leyva Cartel, pleaded guilty Wednesday to … for the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Government of Mexico and literally hundreds of DEA’s federal, state and …
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Key Player In Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced

… Paul Gastellum-Chavez, aka Juan Chavez Rodriguez, 57, of Mexico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by U. S. … for transporting multi-ton quantities of marijuana from Mexico into the United States. “This sentencing sends a … shipments of marijuana into the United States from Mexico via ports of entry located in Arizona using tractor …
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Alaska Judge Sentences Texas Man To 84 Months In Prison In Heroin And Methamphetamine Drug Conspiracy

… two pounds of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico. Alfaro previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with … Alaska themed t-shirt that had been requested by Alfaro’s Mexico-based coconspirator. During the sentencing hearing, … rings with ties to Alaska, California, Texas, Arizona, and Mexico. To date, the following individuals have been …
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Mexican National and Alleged Alien Smuggler Indicted in El Paso on First Material Support of Terrorism Charges for Supporting CJNG

… 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) … from Navarro-Sanchez’s possession during her arrest in Mexico on May 4, 2025. Download Original Image AM-15, …
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Federal Inmate Sentenced To Eight Years For Conspiring To Import Marijuana While In Federal Prison

… time in federal prison, arranged shipment of marijuana from Mexico to northwest Wisconsin MADISON, Wis. - ― John W. … announced that Humberto Fierro-Rascon, 41, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. … arranged to smuggle a shipment of marijuana from Mexico to Christopher Johnson in northwest Wisconsin. …