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Seven Defendants Charged for Laundering Over $28 Million for DTO

… organizations throughout the United States and in Mexico to receive large quantities of cash to be laundered. …
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Man Arrested on Federal Charges of Selling Fake Pills that caused Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

… deaths. According to the DEA, criminal drug networks in Mexico are mass-producing illicit fentanyl and fake pills …
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Daughter of Prolific Mexican Cartel Leader Pleads Guilty to Criminal Violation of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act

… Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzalez, 34, of Guadalajara, Mexico, violated the criminal penalties of the Foreign …
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DEA announces launch of Project Safeguard

… to procure high-grade military weapons for use in Mexico against rival cartels and the government. # # # Los …
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Drug Courier Sentenced to 37 Months in Federal Prison

… announced that ARMANDO VARELA-PLAZA, 41, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Queens, New York, has been sentenced …
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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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Indictment Charges 5 Men with Fentanyl Trafficking Offenses

… Republic HUGO IVAN RAMIREZ-BELLOZO , 32, a citizen of Mexico JUAN GONZALEZ-REYES , aka “Chinbala,” 32, of Hartford …
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New Britain Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Fentanyl

… of narcotics, primarily fentanyl, from a source in Mexico, and then distributed the drug to street-level …
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$2.1 Million in Meth Proceeds Results in Guilty Verdicts

… Mo., Luis Carlos Ramos Caraveo, 26, a citizen of Mexico residing in Kansas City, Mo., Christopher Shawn …
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St. Louis Man Sentenced to 10+ Years for Trafficking Cocaine

… kilogram quantities of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl from Mexico, through Texas and Florida, to the St. Louis …
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Federal agencies arrest 10 in drug trafficking ring in St. Louis and Phoenix

… the United States after having been previously removed to Mexico. Gomez-Celaya is further charged with illegal reentry …
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Attorney General Barr announces results of DEA Operation Crystal Shield

… traffickers transport their illegally-gained cash back to Mexico, and the seizure of those funds severely impacts the …
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Sampson County Illegal Alien Caught with 30 Kilograms and 9 Firearms Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison

… presented in court, Mondragon, age 45, was born in Mexico and illegally entered the United States. Mondragon …
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Three Men Indicted, Nearly 1,400 Pounds of Methamphetamine Seized, and Two Methamphetamine Labs Dismantled

… Alvarez Sanchez, 37, and Raul Munoz Navarro, 54, both of Mexico, were arrested on December 11, 2024, during a …
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Three Plead Guilty for Roles in Conspiracy to Distribute Nine Kilograms of Cocaine

… of $230,000 in drug proceeds that he sought to send to Mexico. On April 20, 2022, Lara was stopped on Interstate-84 …
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Leader Of Brockton-Area Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty To Fentanyl Conspiracy

… Brockton area, who sourced drugs directly from Colombia, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. On two dates in 2021, …
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Leaders of Colombian Drug Trafficking Organization Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Smuggle over 43,000 Kilos of Cocaine into the United States

… it by boat to either Nicaragua or Honduras, then to Mexico and the United States. From 2016 until 2023, …
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Springfield Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Cocaine While on Supervised Release

… was receiving narcotics from sources in California via Mexico, and using Suarez’s son, Giovanny Jorrin, to send …
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DEA Releases 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment

… sold in the United States today is manufactured in Mexico, and it is purer and more potent than in years past. …
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Meth “Cooks” Sent to Prison in Custom Importation Scheme

… Duarte and co-conspirators imported liquid meth from Mexico. They would then “cook” it into crystals to whatever …
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Final Defendant in Large Western Washington Drug Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison

… and cocaine, smuggling the drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and then transporting them up the west coast for …
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Drug Trafficker Who Created Fortified Compound at Bellingham Homeless Encampment Pleads Guilty

… and More Drugs SEATTLE, Wash. – A 32-year-old citizen of Mexico pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking and firearms …
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Five Individuals Sentenced to Prison for Meth Trafficking and Money Laundering

… He obtained large quantities of methamphetamine from Mexico and paid couriers, including Darius Robinson, to …
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Charlottesville Methamphetamine Traffickers Plead Guilty

… 40, from El Salvador, Francisco Rocha Uribe, 31, from  Mexico, Rafael Vasquez Navarette, 26, from El Salvador, and …
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Federal Jury Convicts Mexican National for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

… a/k/a Jose Manuel Flores, age 37, a citizen of Mexico most recently residing in Indianapolis, Indiana, for …
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Lead Defendant Sentenced in Burke County Drug Trafficking Investigation

… DEA developed information about cocaine trafficking from Mexico, through California to Atlanta, and then primarily to …
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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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Bulk trafficker of heroin and crystal methamphetamine sentenced to 20 years

… Task Force, targeting the importation of narcotics from Mexico into Western North Carolina.  OCDETF is a joint …
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Defendant Caught with 14 Kilos of Fentanyl and Seven Kilos of Methamphetamine Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison

… fentanyl and meth TACOMA, Wash.– A 36-year-old citizen of Mexico was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 136 Months for Drug Trafficking in the Tri Cities

… methamphetamine. De La Mora Cardenas, who is from Colima, Mexico, also will serve 5 years of federal supervision after …