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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in Nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications, Continues Fight against Opioid Epidemic

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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Three Men Charged Following Seizure of Over 221 Kilograms of Methamphetamine

… the conspiracy in other locations including California and Mexico. Jaime Cruz Duarte, 34, Rito Armando Torres …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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DEA to Hold 21st Take Back Event on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… Criminal drug networks are shipping chemicals from China to Mexico where they are converted to dangerous substances like …
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DOJ and DEA Los Angeles Field Division announce dual U.S. Mexican citizen arrested for violations of the Kingpin Act

… known as “La Negra,” 33, who was residing in Guadalajara, Mexico, was arrested in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday …
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Lubbock Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Combined 106 Years in Federal Prison

… that he regularly worked with a cocaine source of supply in Mexico, who delivered the drug with little advance notice …
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Seven Arrested In Butte County Methamphetamine Trafficking Investigation: Operation Crystal Ball

… transported pound quantities of methamphetamine from Mexico to Butte County and at the direction of Aguilar, …
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DEA announces launch of Operation Crystal Shield

… Organizations (DTO) import methamphetamine across the U.S.-Mexico border, then transport it though Texas, Mississippi …
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DEA announces launch of Operation Crystal Shield

… dangerous and highly addictive poison is manufactured in Mexico, then smuggled across the Southwest Border by Mexican …
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DEA announces launch of Operation Crystal Shield

… more methamphetamine distribution and addiction.  The same Mexico-based cartels that traffic fentanyl have also worked …
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DEA announces release of Pennsylvania opioid threat report

… and fentanyl-related substances, originating primarily in Mexico and China and transported throughout Pennsylvania by …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… collaborate closely with its international partners, within Mexico and around the world, to aggressively investigate and …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… collaborate closely with its international partners, within Mexico and around the world, to aggressively investigate and …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… collaborate closely with its international partners, within Mexico and around the world, to aggressively investigate and …
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Two Convicted for Roles in Drug Trafficking Organization with Ties to Mexican Cartel

… who coordinated fentanyl shipments from Sinaloa, Mexico to Massachusetts and the laundering of hundreds of …
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

… San Diego faces unique challenges by being on the U.S.-Mexico border,” said San Diego Special Agent in Charge John …
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“Pill Mill” doctor pleads guilty to opioid distribution, admits signing prescriptions for dead and jailed patients

… in San Diego and that such pills were also smuggled into Mexico and sold to a pharmacy there. The guilty plea was …
BLIDE ACOSTA-PACHECO
FUGITIVE

Blide Acosta-Pacheco

Wanted for the following alleged federal violations: CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND POSSESS W/INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE
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Kern County Drug Traffickers Indicted

… Salas Mendoza, aka Rene Salas Mendoza, 37, both of Durango, Mexico, were charged with conspiring to distribute and to …
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22 individuals named in federal indictments charging money laundering and drug trafficking

… in this multi-jurisdictional case which targeted a Mexico-based methamphetamine distribution organization with …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 24 Years In Federal Prison

… that Francisco Alfredo Montes-Vargas, of Culiacan, Mexico, was sentenced to 292 months in federal prison, to be …
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Tulare County Marijuana Cultivator Convicted

… agreement, Eliazar Castellanos-Gutierrez, 26, of Colima, Mexico, conspired to manufacture, distribute, and possess …
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Rocky Mountain Field Division Removes Almost 900,000 Potentially Deadly Doses of Fentanyl from its Communities During Operation Last Mile

… members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in Mexico, China, and Central America, including the leaders of …
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Mexican National Sentenced to More than 12 Years for Drug Trafficking in the Tri Cities

… 5 Kilograms or More of Cocaine. Mendoza-Ruelas, who is from Mexico, also will serve 5 years of federal supervision after …
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Agricultural Marijuana Cultivators Enter Guilty Pleas

… for co-defendant Ramon Manjarrez-Del Vaal, 36, of Sinaloa, Mexico. This case is a product of Operation Mercury, an …
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Mexican national headed to federal prison for possessing meth

… Texas - A 31-year-old resident of Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction …
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Launch of outreach and education campaign to combat cartels using youth to smuggle drugs

… in San Diego and Imperial Counties as well as one in Mexico, are being unveiled featuring stark warnings to …