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Arizona Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances into South Dakota

RAPID CITY - A Tucson, Arizona, man, Francisco Siquieros-Valenzuela, also known as “Pancho,” 32, was sentenced November 9, to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. Siquieros-Valenzuela was indicted for Conspiracy to...
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Colombia-Based Cocaine Importers Indicted in Drug Conspiracy and Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to the FARC

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – A third superseding indictment recently unsealed in the Eastern District of Louisiana charges six members and associates of a Colombian-Russian drug trafficking organization with federal drug trafficking offenses, including conspiring to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney David I...
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First Defendant in Homeland Security Task Force Investigation of Gun and Drug Trafficking Organization in Western Washington Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Seattle – A 36-year-old Mexican national, who was tending a drug stash house in Everett and making drug deliveries for a large drug trafficking organization, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison. Sylvestre Ramos was arrested October 28, 2025, following a year-long investigation...
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Homeland Security Task Force: Mississippi Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Drug-Trafficking Conspiracy Involving Fentanyl Pills

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A Mississippi man has been sentenced for his involvement in a drug conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. U.S. District Judge Edmund G. LaCour sentenced Jabreon Deshon Mosley, Jr., 36, of Meridian, Mississippi, to 300 months in prison. Mosley was convicted by a federal jury...
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Two Men Charged with Cocaine Trafficking for Operating Queens, New York, Stash Apartment

Special Agent in Charge of the New York Enforcement Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Farhana Islam, and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging GLEN CONTRERAS and ERICK MARCANO with conspiring to distribute vast quantities of...
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Harvey Man Sentenced to 120 Months Imprisonment For Drug and Gun Charges

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – On November 4, 2026, JOSEPH HALL (“HALL”), age 56, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lance M. Africk to 120 months as to Counts One, Two, and Four of the indictment pending against him, announced United States Attorney David I. Courcelle. HALL was also sentenced...
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New Orleans Man Guilty of Federal Fentanyl and Firearm Charges

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JOSHUA BENSON (“ BENSON”), a/k/a “Big Mal,” age 36, of New Orleans, pled guilty on November 3, 2026, before United States District Judge Wendy B. Vitter to Counts One, Three, Four, Five, and Six of a six-count indictment charging him with violations of the Federal Controlled...
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West Point Man Sentenced for Distributing Meth and Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm

ABERDEEN, MS – Kelvis Orr, 36, of West Point, Mississippi, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years supervised release. Senior District Judge Glen H. Davidson sentenced the defendant after Orr previously pleaded guilty to distribution in excess of 500 grams of methamphetamine and being a...
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Jury Convicts Conway Man in Methamphetamine Conspiracy

LITTLE ROCK—A federal jury has convicted Kyle Keith Robinson of conspiracy to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The trial, which spanned two days, ended on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, with guilty verdicts on all counts he was charged with in the Indictment...
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DEA Caribbean Division Highlights 70-Month Drug Trafficking Sentence and Other HSTF Case Results in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Caribbean Division, alongside the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico and its Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) partners, announced that three defendants pleaded guilty and two were sentenced in federal cases during the week of October 26–30, 2026...

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