EL PASO, Texas - Twelve individuals involved in the transportation and storage of large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana have been arrested and are facing federal prosecution announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent...

JUNE 27, (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) - During a press conference this afternoon, federal, state and local officials announced the results of the multi-agency enforcement operation in New Mexico which was part of yesterday’s DEA-led enforcement operations in 35 states targeting the upper echelon of dangerous designer synthetic drug trafficking organizations that...

ALPINE, Texas - Two men face federal drug trafficking charges related to the discovery of more than 480 pounds of marijuana on a Van Horn Independent School (ISD) school bus last year announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and DEA-El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit. A...

JUNE 14, (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) - Seven individuals were arrested this morning on federal narcotics trafficking charges as a result of a multi-agency investigation targeting heroin traffickers operating in the Northeast Height of Albuquerque, N.M., announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the...

EL PASO - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan announced today that 16 El Paso, Texas defendants have been arrested, based on a 41-count federal indictment charging violations of federal...

EL PASO, Texas - In El Paso, 23-year old Gonzalo Delgado-Chavez of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison for his role in the kidnapping and murder of three individuals during a wedding ceremony in Juarez, Mexico in May of 2010 announced United States Attorney Robert...

Public Information Officer 915-832-6074 (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -Thirteen residents of Cibola County, N.M., have been charged with drug trafficking and firearms charges as a result of a multi-agency investigation spearheaded by the DEA, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Thirteen Judicial District Attorney Lemuel L. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Joseph...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - - Twenty-one individuals have been charged with using fraudulent prescriptions to unlawfully obtain Oxycodone, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Second Judicial District Attorney Kari E. Brandenburg, Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) El Paso Field Division, and Executive Director Larry...

MIDLAND, TX - -In Midland today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 38-year-old former Odessa Police officer Jackie Lynn Thompson and five other Odessa, Texas, residents in connection with a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division of the...

ODESSA, Texas - Today in Midland, 68-year-old Jimmy Wayne Wright, former owner of B&L Bookstore in Odessa, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute Methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or more commonly referred to as “bath salts,” announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and...