United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DENVER – Fentanyl continues to be the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. In 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized nationally more than 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. Across the DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division –...

BILLINGS, Mt. — Ten people were arrested on allegations of trafficking methamphetamine on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservations and in Yellowstone, Big Horn and Rosebud counties earlier this month. Seven defendants face charges in a multi-count indictment alleging meth trafficking, firearms and money laundering crimes. Four additional defendants...

Dallas, TX - A Dallas lawyer has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money he believed was linked to narcotics trafficking, the DEA Dallas Special Agent in Charge, Eduardo A. Chávez announced today. Rayshun Jackson, the 52-year-old former defense attorney who ran The Jackson...

DALLAS, TX - A local Dallas cell head who worked with the Santa Rosa Lima Drug Cartel and other Mexico-based drug trafficking organizations was sentenced Wednesday to more than 16 years in federal prison, announced Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chávez Carlos Espinoza Juarez, a 33-year-old Mexican national, pleaded...

DALLAS - A Dallas lawyer has been charged with laundering what he believed to be proceeds of narcotics trafficking, announced Eduardo A. Chavez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA in Dallas. Rayshun Jackson, the 51-year-old attorney at the helm of The Jackson Law Firm, was arrested Wednesday, charged via...

DALLAS – DEA Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced today the unsealing of four indictments charging Miguel Cespedes, Omar Mogollon, Luis Felipe Gonzalez Arcila, Ivan Rojas Acosta, Alex Barrera Forero and David...