United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WACO, Texas - In the Waco area today, September 11, 2014, federal and state authorities arrested 21 Aryan (AB) members and associates, including ranking AB members 54 year old Wayne Huisinger of Belton, TX, and 39 year old Robert Eaton of Kempner, Texas, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution...

AUSTIN, Texas - In the Austin area today, September 4, 2014, federal and state authorities arrested 22 individuals, including ringleaders 54 year old Timothy John Bruner of Leander, Texas, and 23 year old Ryan Robert Rowland of Round Rock, Texas, in connection with a steroid distribution operation announced Drug Enforcement...

GALVESTON, Texas - A four-count federal indictment has been unsealed in Galveston following the arrest of five area residents, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Abel Hinojosa, 34, Nelson Agapito Ventura, 37, Daniel Reyna, 33, Israel Sanchez, 20, were...

SAN DIEGO - Jose Rodrigo Arechiga-Gamboa, also known as “Chino Antrax,” was formally extradited to the United States by the Netherlands today. Arechiga-Gamboa arrived at San Diego International airport about 2 p.m. under heavy security. He was flown in by the United States Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration...

SAN ANTONIO - This morning, federal and state authorities arrested six individuals, including 27-year-old ringleader David Anthony Navejar, in connection with a drug distribution network operating in Gonzales, TX, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, Houston Division, and Gonzales Police Chief Tim Crow. Other Gonzales...

HOUSTON - A multi-count federal indictment has been unsealed following the arrest of 11 individuals throughout south Texas and the Houston areas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Brian M. Moskowitz, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security (HSI)...

SAN DIEGO - The former owner of a San Diego pharmacy, Alma Jean Loechler, 66, San Diego, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government and paid $147,500 this week for allegedly mishandling significant amounts of highly-addictive and frequently-abused prescription narcotics. The settlement is with Alma Jean...

LAREDO, Texas - A total of 24 alleged members of a cocaine, crack and marijuana trafficking network have been arrested and charged in an indictment with multiple violations of federal law, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A 25th...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jose Angel Marichalar, 33, Phillip Cross, 56, and Yisnel Garcia Gonzalez, 30, have all entered guilty pleas in a trial set to begin today, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Marichalar, from Mission, pleaded guilty shortly...

WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and United States Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York today announced that 21 citizens of the Dominican Republic have been charged with conspiring to impersonate United States law enforcement officers, extortion, and wire fraud. Beginning two weeks ago, authorities...