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Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Sentenced To 360 Months In Prison

… north from South America to points in Central America and Mexico - en route to its eventual destination of the United …
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International Narcotics Trafficker Extradited From Honduras To United States Sentenced

… then into Guatemala and other countries, including Mexico and the United States.  As the owner and operator of …
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Alleged Colombian Drug Kingpin Extradited To The United States To Face Drug Charges

… loads of cocaine from South America to Central America and Mexico with an eventual destination of the United States. In …
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Five Charged In Heroin Trafficking Ring In North Carolina

… shipped into the Western District of North Carolina from Mexico. In making today’s announcement, U.S. Attorney Rose …
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Investigation Leads To Sentencing Of Significant Connecticut Cocaine Trafficker

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 12 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to …
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Hartford Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, and then transported the drug to …
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El Paso Man Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Cocaine

… a cocaine trafficking operation that smuggled cocaine from Mexico into El Paso and then transported the drug to …
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Wiretap Investigation Yields More Than 77lbs Of Fentanyl, Heroin And Cocaine In “Operation High Hopes”

… are believed to have come from the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. “Those suffering from the disease of opioid …
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International Cocaine Trafficking Network Impacting The Low Country And Midlands Charged In Charleston, SC

… involving a cocaine trafficking network operating between Mexico and South Carolina. According to the federal …
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Owner Of Fashion District Clothing Company Pleads Guilty To Customs, Immigration And Money Laundering Offenses

… a type of trade-based money laundering - are often used by Mexico-based drug trafficking organizations to collect …
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Two Colombian Nationals Extradited To Los Angeles On Charges Of Leading Multi-Ton Cocaine Conspiracy Via Clandestine Air Shipments

… in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States and Mexico.   “The vast majority of cocaine imported to the U.S. …
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Mexican National Who Is Key Drug Trafficking Target Indicted On High Desert Meth Lab Related Charges

…   Adrian Ulises Garcia-Ruiz, 37, a native of Michoacán, Mexico was arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth International …
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Heroin Distributor Gets Nearly 33 Years In Federal Prison In Mexican Mafia Case

… of heroin. He would buy the drugs wholesale from Mexico and distribute it locally and to San Antonio. Today, …
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Warehouse Manager Ordered To Prison

… Laredo; Jaime Enrique Montalvo-Ruiz, 45, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; and Leocadio Ruiz, 48, of Dallas, entered pleas of …
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Authorities Arrest 24 In Maverick And Zavala Counties On Federal Charges

… today include:       Genaro Balboa-Falcon, age 47 of Mexico, and Joseph (a.k.a. “Cain”), age 30 of Crystal City, …
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Member Of “Los Piojos” Cocaine Trafficking Family, Responsible For Importing Tons Of Cocaine Into US Convicted Millions Used To Buy Over 50 Racing Horses: Over 280 Kilos Of Cocaine, $15-20 Million In Assets Seized

… smuggling routes stretching from Guatemala to Diaz Ordaz, Mexico, across from McAllen, Texas. Cocaine was smuggled …
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Houston Mother And Son Sent To Prison For Smuggling Methamphetamine

… bottles was 4.339 kilograms and it had been imported from Mexico.  At the time of Velasquez’s plea, she admitted to …
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Narcotics Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 11 Years In Federal Prison

… also known as “The Mexican,” 27, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Bloomfield, Conn., was sentenced …
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Colombian Crime Syndicate Leader Sentenced To Prison For Role In Mediating Drug Money Disputes

… debts on behalf of other drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico and Colombia.  These organizations contracted with …
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Federal Jury Convicts Former Houston Police Officer Of Conspiracy

… some of which ended up among senior cartel leaders in Mexico. The conspiracy to distribute cocaine conviction …
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Ten Alleged Members Of A Colombian Drug Trafficking Organization Charged With Distributing Over 25,000 Kilograms Of Cocaine Designated Drug “Kingpin” Javier Antonio Calle Serna Charged With Murder

… of cocaine from Colombia to the United States, via Mexico, Venezuela, and other countries in South and Central …
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Two Men Found Guilty Of Drug Trafficking Charges

… showed that the drug trafficking (DTO) received drugs from Mexico via “backpackers,” repackaged the marijuana into …
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18 Arrested On Cocaine Drug Trafficking Charges

… organization that would import kilos of cocaine from Mexico, transport them covertly to locations in Tucson and …
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Four Patagonia Drug Traffickers Sentenced To Serve A Combined Term Of 32 Years In Prison

… that the Monge DTO have been smuggling marijuana from Mexico into the United States and transporting the bulk …
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Treasury Continues Targeting Sinaloa Cartel Leadership

… of Jose Guadalupe Tapia Quintero, a Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico based senior lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel.  Jose …
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Final Defendant Sentenced In ‘Operation Frozen Freight’

… and Ohio and various DEA offices throughout the U.S. and in Mexico. DEA’s Document and Media (DOMEX) Program provided …
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"Operation Smack Talk" Results In The Seizure Of Nearly 90 Pounds Of White Heroin Seven Defendants Arrested In One Of The State’s Largest Heroin Busts

… bedroom closet.  The heroin was smuggled into Arizona from Mexico utilizing non-factory hidden compartments in several …
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DEA Target Sentenced To Over 19 Years For Heroin Trafficking

… cash drug proceeds in excess of a million dollars back into Mexico. Much of the heroin imported and distributed by …
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DEA Investigation Leads To Million-Dollar Fine

… drums were destined to an unverified customer located in Mexico.  “DEA’s enforcement of regulatory requirements is …