United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LUBBOCK, Texas - Seven defendants charged in an indictment returned in November 2017 were sentenced in recent weeks by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Lubbock, Texas area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr...

FT. WORTH, Texas - Arnoldo Morfin-Arias, aka “Efrain Arias” and “Pollo,” 44, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to Life in federal prison following his guilty plea in November 2017 to one count of conspiring to traffic in methamphetamine, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E...

DALLAS - “La Familia Michoacàn” (LFM) Mexican drug cartel leader, Arnoldo Rueda-Medina, aka “La Minsa,” 48, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 520 months in federal prison and a $5 million fine for offenses related to his leadership role within LFM. LFM...

AMARILLO, Texas - Two men from California, Erasmo Ramirez-Romero and Jorge Ramirez, appeared yesterday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, and pleaded guilty to their roles in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney...

AMARILLO - U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Jose Santillan, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, earlier this week to 212 months’ in federal prison. Santillan was convicted in December 2017, following a three-day trial, on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Misraim Israel Briones Pasos aka Mario Ozuna, 36, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for his role in a vast conspiracy responsible for trafficking hundreds of pounds of black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico to the Portland metropolitan area. “Most of...

SEATTLE - A task force led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) today arrested 15 people and continues to search for an additional six defendants charged in connection with a long-term investigation of drug trafficking. Law enforcement served search warrants at eight locations and searched more than a dozen vehicles. At...

SEATTLE - Former Seattle police officer was sentenced on March 22, 2018, to six years in prison, and his co-conspirator in an interstate marijuana distribution scheme were also sentenced to 14 years in prison, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Former officer Alex Chapackdee, 44, of Seattle pleaded guilty in...

DALLAS, Texas - Eskandar Molavi, 69, of Frisco, Texas, is in federal custody following his arrest Friday, March 16, 2018 on federal charges stemming from a murder-for-hire plot to have his former business partner kidnapped and possibly killed. The announcement was made this afternoon by Special Agent in Charge Clyde...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Following a four-day trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, a federal jury convicted Frederick Allen, 44, of Baytown, Texas, for his role in a drug conspiracy that operated throughout West Texas. Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration...