United States Drug Enforcement Administration

McALLEN, Texas - A jury has found a former Drug Enforcement (DEA) task force officer/Mission Police Department investigator guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...

HOUSTON - A two-count federal indictment has been returned charging two Houston residents and one Mexican National in a cocaine conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Houston Division U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The indictment against Shuntel Coco, 44, and Christopher Williams...

HOUSTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human (DHHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301 individuals, including 61 doctors, nurses and other...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Nine west Texas residents, including four alleged members of the Texas Syndicate, remain in federal custody following their arrests earlier this week on federal charges stemming from their roles in a methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 15 individuals charged in connection with a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Western District of Texas; United...

DALLAS - Seven north Texas residents remain in federal custody following their arrests last week on federal charges outlined in a just-unsealed indictment that alleges various offenses related to their roles in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. The arrests were...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Octavio Colin, 34, of Cleburne, Texas, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 240 (20 years) in federal prison, following his guilty plea earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney...

DEL RIO, Texas - In Del Rio today Felipe Carmona-Rodriguez, 51, of Eagle Pass, Texas was sentenced on federal narcotics trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph Arabit, Houston Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division...

FORT WORTH, Texas - After a trial lasting more than two-weeks, a federal jury has convicted two Mexican citizens on federal charges related to the murder of Southlake, Texas, resident, Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, at Southlake Town Square on May 22, 2013, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern...

McALLEN, Texas - Two local men have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Guadalupe Trevino Jr., 43, and Guadalupe Trevino...