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Two Defendants Arrested During 2023 Joint Enforcement Operation in Carlsbad Plead Guilty to Conspiracy Charges

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 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 today that Brian Kain Purdy and Sabino …
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Former Dona Ana County doctor sentenced to 108 months for conviction on unlawful distribution of prescription painkillers and health care fraud charges

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … was licensed to practice medicine in the state of New Mexico and was registered with the DEA to prescribe …
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Members Of Taos County-Based Heroin Trafficking And Money Laundering Ring Enter Guilty Pleas

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE - Ivan Romero, 40, the leader of a heroin …
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Leader Of Major Drug Trafficking Ring And Seven Co-Conspirators Sentenced To Prison

… Carolina and funneling millions in drug proceeds back to Mexico STATESVILLE, N.C. - One of the leaders and seven … Carolina and funneling millions in drug proceeds back to Mexico were sentenced earlier this week, announced Jill … court in Statesville are: David Maldonado-Rendon, 33, of Mexico - Sentenced to 210 months and five years of …
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Ten Alleged Members Of Sunland Park Heroin Trafficking Ring Facing Federal Narcotics Trafficking Charges

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE - Ten individuals are facing heroin …
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Chicago Twins’ Cooperation Against Sinaloa Cartel Yields 14- Year Prison Terms; New Charges Target Cartel’s Top Echelon

… from street level dealers to the highest echelons of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel and a rival cartel before they … left behind millions of dollars in additional assets in Mexico after they began cooperating. The judge also placed … $1.8 billion of drug proceeds from the United States to Mexico, primarily through bulk cash smuggling.     At great …
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DEA News: HSBC Holdings Plc. And HSBC Bank USA N.A. Admit To Anti-Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations, Forfeit $1.256 Billion In Deferred Prosecution Agreement

… activities from HSBC Group Affilliates, particularly HSBC Mexico, one of HSBC Bank USA’s largest Mexican customers.  … money laundering risks associated with doing business in Mexico, from at least 2006 to 2009, HSBC Bank USA rated … U.S. dollars from HSBC Mexico during this period, when HSBC Mexico’s own lax AML controls caused it to be the preferred …
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Federal Prison Sentences Handed Down In Columbus, NM Firearms Trafficking Investigation

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … by three years of supervised release; 27 year old Palomas, Mexico, resident Manuel Ortega to 70 months incarceration …
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El Paso, Texas Man Sentenced For Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Conviction

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … of methamphetamine after a co-conspirator in Guadalajara, Mexico, negotiated the deal with one of the undercover …
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Former Pharmacy Technician From Carlsbad Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Crime For Unlawful Possession Of Oxycodone

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … which seeks to reduce opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE - Amber Kay Otero, 31, of Carlsbad, N.M., …
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Las Cruces Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Conviction

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … CRUCES, N.M - Jessie Jesus Marquez, 37, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced last week in federal court to 121 …
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Head Of The Quintero Drug Trafficking Enterprise Convicted

… TX - Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 69, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit (RICO), … spanned from Colombia and Peru in South America, to Mexico, the Cayman Islands and to the United States, between … Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice and Mexico’s Procuraduria General De La (Office of the General …
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Sinaloa Cartel Member Sentenced To 22 Years In Federal Prison; Plea Agreements Unsealed For Leaders Of Cartel’s Chicago Cell

… CHICAGO - ― A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison … to transport cocaine from Central and South America to Mexico, as well as from Mexico into and throughout the United States. Vasquez …
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DEA Announces Results Of Operation Knight Stalker

… (or Los Caballeros Templarios “LCT”) in California and Mexico.  Arrest warrants have been issued for 30 individuals … into the “La Familia Michoacán” (LFM) members working in Mexico and Southern California involved in the smuggling of … quantities of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico.  Early in the investigation, intelligence revealed …
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Former Governor Of Mexican State Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 131 Months In Prison For Money Laundering In Connection With Narcotics Bribes

… payments that he received from the Juarez Cartel - one of Mexico’s most notorious and violent cocaine cartels - … other countries. Villanueva Madrid, 65, was extradited from Mexico in May 2010. He pled guilty on August 2, 2012, before …
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A Year of Impact: DEA Recognizes its Success in Combatting Drug Cartels and Saving Lives

… committed against our nation.  Return of 29 defendants from Mexico, including of Rafael Caro Quintero In February 2025, … the United States secured custody of 29 defendants from Mexico, some of whom are facing charges in federal districts …
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Albuquerque Man Charged with Conspiracy Related to Recovery of Tiger Cub in Albuquerque

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … conspired with others to import the tiger cub from Mexico into New Mexico and sell it for thousands of dollars. …
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Dozens Of Alleged Members Of Sinaloa Cartel Charged; List Includes Kingpin “El Mayo,” His Sons And Other Top Leaders

… SAN DIEGO - Sixty alleged members and associates of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel - including the highest ranking … the world’s most powerful drug lord until his arrest in Mexico in February 2014. This case began in late 2011 as an … Minnesota, Kentucky, Georgia; and the countries of Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Great Britain, the Philippines, …
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Federal Grand Jury in Chicago Indicts Five Alleged Associates of Sinaloa Cartel on Drug Trafficking Charges

… Roberto Velazquez Martinez , 36, of Santiago Papasquiaro, Mexico; Camilo Alvarez, 44, of Durango, Mexico; Jose Hernandedez Ramirez, 36, of Tamaulipas, Mexico; Ines Chavez Rodriguez, 36, of Santiago Papasquiaro, …
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DEA Omaha Division feels effects of Sinaloa Cartel

… North Dakota and South Dakota from routes that begin in Mexico. “We’ve been able to trace large amounts of … and more established drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. Though its birthplace and stronghold is the Mexican … the United States through crossing points located along Mexico’s border with California, Arizona, New Mexico and …
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Tarrant And Parker County Men Receive Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences For Roles In Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

… May 2013, Favela received cocaine from various Mexico-based cocaine suppliers - usually receiving several … of cocaine. Typically, once Favela received cocaine from Mexico, he personally distributed it, often on consignment, … Villarreal-Flores worked as a money-courier for Favela’s Mexico-based supplier, transporting drug proceeds from …
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DEA/FBI Set Up New Tip Lines

… California areas as well as Northern Baja California, Mexico. For the better part of the last twenty years the … well as in one of the largest cities within the Republic of Mexico, Tijuana, Baja California.   In 1995, the  DEA , FBI  … most notably;  Benjamin Arellano Felix, arrested in Puebla, Mexico in 2002, and extradited to the United States in 2012, …
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Alleged Drug Traffickers Indicted

… distributed more than 500 kilograms of heroin produced by a Mexico-based heroin distribution organization.  The drugs … and supervised the transportation and delivery from Mexico to Philadelphia where he oversaw distribution of … laundered transmitted, and transported to the leadership in Mexico using various money laundering techniques.  It is …
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35 defendants to include the ring leader charged in major take down of international drug trafficking organization based in Lane County

… including one of its ringleaders and sources of supply from Mexico, have been charged with distributing methamphetamine, … charging Victor Diaz-Ramirez, 30, who was residing in Mexico, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. This … into the large-scale distribution of drugs into Oregon from Mexico by the drug trafficking organization led by …
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Leader Of Major Heroin Trafficking Ring Operating Out Of Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … too will face the same fate as Bustamante-Conchas.” “New Mexico’s opioid addiction and overdose death rates have been …
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Federal Indictment Charges Eight With Participating In Taos County Heroin Trafficking And Money Laundering Ring

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Last week, a federal grand jury …
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Hospice Nurse Pleads Guilty To Prescription Opioid Conspiracy Charges

… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … 324-7395 Michelle.Rincon@dea.gov Division Contacts New Mexico Albuquerque - (505) 452-4500 Las Cruces - (575) … Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Desiree Ulibarri, 31, of …
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Former Mexican Federal Police Commander Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

… in exchange for agreeing to assist El Seguimiento 39, a Mexico-based cartel, ship cocaine from Mexico to the United States. The El Seguimiento 39 cartel is … Sinaloa Cartel, the Beltran Leyva Organization and other Mexico-based cartels. Reyes Arzate pleaded guilty to the …
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Leader of Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Organization with Ties to Mexican Cartel Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

… fentanyl distribution in Massachusetts on behalf of Mexico-based suppliers BOSTON – A coordinator for a … conspiracy, operating on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, has been sentenced in federal court in Boston. … on Dec. 11, 2023. “The flow of deadly fentanyl from Mexico to Massachusetts is directly tied to the devastation …
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Former Mexican Governor and Presidential Candidate Sentenced for Money Laundering

… (254) 297-0300 HOUSTON – The former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for … Ruvalcaba, 66, was also a former candidate for president of Mexico. He pleaded guilty March 25, 2021. Today, U.S. … violated his oath of office, weakening the country of Mexico and promoting criminal activity.  As part of his …