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Six Men Charged With Cultivating Marijuana On U.S. Forest Land In Wisconsin

August 12, 2011
… were charged: Jose Esqueda-Garcia, 19, a citizen of Mexico Norberto Burciago, 40, St. Paul, MN Cesar Omar Tinoco, 21, a citizen of Mexico Moises Lopez-Ontiveros, 21, a citizen of Mexico Jorge …
August 12, 2011
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Member Of A Major Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy Is Sentenced To Serve 18 Years In Federal Prison On Conspiracy And Money Laundering Convictions

October 08, 2014
… month.  The methamphetamine was imported into the U.S. from Mexico, and it was delivered to the Dallas area for … his customers and returned money to his supply source in Mexico.  Cisneros admitted sending money to Mexico via …
October 08, 2014
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Former Piedras Negras “Plaza” Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Distribution Charge

April 09, 2015
… of kilograms of narcotics into the United States from Mexico announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph Arabit, … drug traffickers in the Piedras Negras “Plaza” in Coahuila, Mexico, and was responsible for the transportation of …
April 09, 2015
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High Ranking Sinaloa Cartel Member Indicted On Various Drug And Money Laundering Charges

March 28, 2013
… Tapia-Quintero, aka “Lupe”, is a resident of Sinaloa, Mexico and owned various businesses including bus and tractor-trailer companies in Mexico.  As a transportation coordinator for the powerful …
March 28, 2013
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Texas Man Sentenced To 70 Months For Role In International Drug And Money Laundering Conspiracy

August 27, 2015
… to launder drug money out of the United States and into Mexico.  Canales previously pleaded guilty to conspiring … out of the United States to co-conspirators operating in Mexico. Canales joined the conspiracy by at least October …
August 27, 2015
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High-Ranking Sinaloa Leader Extradited to El Paso, Faces up to Life in Federal Prison

February 26, 2025
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … member of the Sinaloa Cartel was extradited from Mexico to El Paso, indicted for criminal charges related to …
February 26, 2025
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Former Mexican Police Officer and CJNG Cartel Member Sentenced in El Paso to 25 Years in Federal Prison

September 05, 2024
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … was involved in an organization that smuggled firearms into Mexico and methamphetamine into the United States.  In …
September 05, 2024
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Albuquerque Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Drug Trafficking Offenses

August 15, 2023
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Rafael Columbie was sentenced …
August 15, 2023
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DEA Dallas Seizes 1,447 Pounds of Drugs, 49 Firearms, and Over $6.6M in Drug-Related Assets

November 04, 2020
… international drug and firearm trafficking between Mexico and Texas.  Operations Trap Mansion and Two Birds and … quantities of firearms, which they would smuggle back to Mexico along with bulk U.S. currency that the Sinaloa Cartel …
November 04, 2020
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DEA El Paso Division Announces the Seizure of Over 9 Million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

January 04, 2023
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … which covers West Texas and the whole state of New Mexico, seized 2,886,783 of those pills and 261.5 of those …
January 04, 2023
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Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson announce launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit

December 18, 2019
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico John C. Anderson and DEA El Paso Division Special …
December 18, 2019
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Drug Traffickers Sentenced for Distributing 100 Kilograms of Methamphetamine Per Week in Atlanta Area

June 04, 2018
… per week while hiding on the other end of a cell phone in Mexico,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “These … in court: Victor Aguirre-Rodriguez was a member of a Mexico-based drug-trafficking organization (DTO) with a …
June 04, 2018
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Thirteen Facing Federal Charges For Trafficking Heroin

July 21, 2011
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico announced that thirteen defendants have been charged …
July 21, 2011
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Treasury Designates Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Bosses

May 07, 2013
… of operation along the Sonora-Arizona corridor of the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary, which extends for nearly 375 … direct, and support the smuggling of illegal drugs from Mexico into the U.S. and the smuggling of illicit contraband …
May 07, 2013
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Cartel transportation head sentenced to federal prison

May 16, 2019
… feel safer.”    “Montemayor came to the United States from Mexico and used his skills, hard work, and the opportunities … in moving goods across the border from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and then into and across the United States.  In …
May 16, 2019
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Operación dirigida por la DEA que tiene como blanco al Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación genera más de 600 arrestos

March 11, 2020
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … drogas ilegales hacia y a través del oeste de Texas y Nuevo México serán responsables por el daño que causan a nuestras …
March 11, 2020
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Five Santa Fe Residents Arrested On Federal Oxycodone Trafficking Charges

September 26, 2013
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Raymond J. Rael of the Santa Fe Police Department, and New Mexico State Police Lieutenant W. Troy Weisler, Commander of …
September 26, 2013
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Alleged Members Of Grant County Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Arrested On Federal Charges

April 30, 2015
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … this community safe.” “Grant County, like so many of New Mexico's historic, scenic areas, offers lots for residents …
April 30, 2015
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Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Narcotics Trafficking Charges

July 15, 2016
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … seeks to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Jiron, 41, of Albuquerque, N.M., …
July 15, 2016
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Agency Heads Announce Major Criminal Action Against Cartel

May 19, 2011
… 2008, Jesus Valencia Rodriguez has been identified as the Mexico-based gate keeper working for the Caborca-based … multi-ton quantities of marijuana and illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States through the San Miguel Gate …
May 19, 2011
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Thirty-Four Facing Federal And Tribal Charges Arising Out Of Methamphetamine Trafficking On Mescalero Apache Reservation

December 14, 2015
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in Nov. and Dec. 2015.  Sixteen other members of the …
December 14, 2015
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Forty-One Facing Drug Trafficking Charges As A Result Of Multi-Agency Investigation In Chaves County

September 23, 2015
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Police Department, Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, the New Mexico State Police.  Twenty-one of the defendants charged …
September 23, 2015
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Three Chinese Chemical Manufacturing Companies and Five Employees Charged with Conspiring to Manufacture Fentanyl

June 23, 2023
… building blocks of fentanyl to the United States and Mexico, even providing advice on how they should be used to … supplied drug traffickers, in the United States and Mexico, with the ingredients and scientific know-how needed …
June 23, 2023
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Four of Chapo’s Sons Indicted for Large-Scale Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Violent Crimes as Alleged Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel

April 18, 2023
… Jan. 5, 2023, by Mexican authorities in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. He remains detained in Mexico pending extradition proceedings. The charges, …
April 18, 2023
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“Operation G-60” Dismantles Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Operating In Metro Atlanta

June 09, 2011
… are federal fugitives: ADRIAN MARTINEZ-MONTANEZ, 41, Mexico, ROBERTO PEREZ-MENDOZA, 32, Mexico, MARIA MADRIZ-HERNANDEZ, 47, Smyrna, SAMANTHA …
June 09, 2011
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Two Mexican drug traffickers charged with the murder of a Mexican soldier and conspiring to import cocaine into the United States

January 29, 2020
… U.S. rule of law. I commend our law enforcement partners in Mexico on this significant seizure and their pursuit to … the Mexican State of Quintana Roo. Military Officers with Mexico’s Secretaría de la Defense Nacional (SEDENA) met the …
January 29, 2020
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Five Plead Guilty to Drug, Firearms, and Immigration Offenses

July 30, 2024
… JACKSON, MS– Five individuals with ties to Mexico have pled guilty over the past month to felony … firearms and machine gun conversion devices for delivery to Mexico. According to court documents, Rosendo Gonzalez Mora, …
July 30, 2024
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Year in Review: DEA Innovates to Fight Fentanyl

January 19, 2024
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … DEA El Paso Field Division, which covers West Texas and New Mexico, seized 1.5 million fentanyl pills and nearly 165 …
January 19, 2024
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Butte Drug Trafficking Organization with Ties to the Sinaloa Cartel Dismantled

December 16, 2022
… 2,043 pounds of meth and 722,000 fentanyl-laced pills from Mexico to Butte for redistribution, with $2.98 million … convictions of individuals from Montana, California and Mexico.  At least three of the defendants have direct ties …
December 16, 2022
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Albuquerque Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 17 years in Prison

August 05, 2022
… Division X Account @DEAElPasoDiv Omar Arellano Domestic New Mexico, El Paso, Alpine, and Midland Texas Additional … Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that John Seibel was sentenced on Aug. 2 …
August 05, 2022