United States Drug Enforcement Administration

- PHOENIX, AZ. - The Honorable David G. Campbell on Monday sentenced Rosie Cruz Leivas, 33, of Parker to 57 months in federal prison after she pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Leivas, a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was the third defendant sentenced as...

- TUCSON, AZ. - Jose Paul Gastellum-Chavez, aka Juan Chavez Rodriguez, 57, of Mexico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by U. S. District Court Judge Frank R. Zapata. The defendant was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and one count...

PHOENIX, AZ - . - Grand juries have returned multi-count indictments in five cases against 34 defendants accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally trafficking firearms from the United States to Mexico. Beginning earlier this morning, a multi-agency law enforcement task force rounded up and arrested 20 defendants...