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United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle (c.) announces the results of Operation Road King II during a recent news conference. John P. Walters (r.), the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, commented upon the positive impact the coordinated and cooperative effort federal, state and local law enforcement action has had on reducing the supply of drugs and the concomitant reduction in demand. Several law enforcement partners were a part of the investigation and were in attendance. (Read more)
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Oct. 3, 2008 - Ortiz
CARRIZO SPRINGS CITY COUNCILMAN SENTENCED TO LENGTHY PRISON TERM FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
(LAREDO, Texas) - Herardo Ortiz, presently a Carrizo Springs City Councilman, has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison, without parole, and fined $20,000 for marijuana trafficking (Read more)
Oct. 2, 2008 - Villarreal & Velasquez
LAREDO MAN AND FORMER CBP OFFICER SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR SELLING OFFICIAL TRAVEL PERMITS
(LAREDO, Texas) – A former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer and Laredo man, who acted as one of his document vendors, have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in a scheme that falsely produced and brokered official travel documents (Read more)
Oct. 2, 2008 - De La Garza
BROWNSVILLE MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR FIREARMS TRAFFICKING
(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) – Miguel De La Garza, 30, has been sentenced to prison for trafficking in firearms (Read more)
Oct. 1, 2008 - Republic Services
REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO COOPERATE WITH ONGOING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
Company agrees to pay $1 million to the U.S. Treasury Department and $2 million to City of Houston
(HOUSTON, Texas) - Republic Services Inc. has entered into an agreement to cooperate with the United States in its ongoing criminal investigation into immigration violations by former employees at its Houston Wilson Road facility, to adhere to its revised immigration compliance program and to pay $2 million to the City of Houston to be used for recycling purposes and $1 million to the U.S. Department of Treasury as a monetary penalty (Read more)
Oct. 1, 2008 - Gutierrez
MEXICAN NATIONAL INDICTED FOR SHOOTING AT BORDER PATROL
(LAREDO, Texas) - Bernardo Javier Gutierrez, 25, a Mexican national, has been indicted for assaulting a United States Border Patrol agent with a deadly weapon, illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, and of discharging a firearm while in the commission of a violent offense (Read more)
Oct. 1, 2008 - Merrick
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
(HOUSTON, Texas) - A federal grand jury has indicted Carthon Lee Merrick, 34, a Southwest Airlines employee, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine (Read more)
Oct. 1, 2008 - Nordstrom
HOUSTON WOMAN CONVICTED OF DEFRAUDING FEMA AFTER BENCH TRIAL
(HOUSTON, Texas) - Belinda Gayle Nordstrom, 33, of Houston, has been convicted of filing a fraudulent claim with FEMA for Hurricane Rita disaster assistance (Read more)
Oct. 1, 2008 - Perez
FORMER USDA PLANT PROTECTION OFFICER SENTENCED FOR PERMITTING PESTS TO ENTER COUNTRY
(LAREDO, Texas) – Robert Perez, a former United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant protection and quarantine officer (PPQ), was sentenced for permitting trucks carrying agricultural products into the United States without proper fumigation (Read more)
Oct. 1, 2008 - Polanco
FORMER ICE AGENT PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT CHARGE
(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) – A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been convicted of theft of government property (Read more)
Sept. 30, 2008 - Ramirez
WOMAN AT CENTER OF ADOPTION SCAM SENTENCED TO PRISON
(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) – Belinda Ramirez, who engaged in a second adoption scheme following her release from prison for her 2007 adoption scheme conviction, has been sentenced to prison (Read more)
Sept. 30, 2008 - Taylor
HOUSTON RESIDENT CHARGED WITH ENGAGING IN FEMA FRAUD FOR HURRICANES KATRINA, RITA AND IKE
(HOUSTON, Texas) - Phyllis Ann Taylor, 28, of Houston, has been charged with filing multiple fraudulent claims with FEMA for Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike disaster assistance (Read more)
Sept. 26, 2008 - Yeh
FLAGSHIP HOTEL OWNER SENTENCED FOR FILING FALSE CLAIM WITH FEMA HOTEL PROGRAM
(HOUSTON, Texas) — Daniel Yeh, 55, of Sugar Land, the principal owner of Flagship Hotel Ltd., which operates the Flagship Hotel in Galveston, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for filing a false claim with FEMA’s Short Term Lodging Program in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Read more)
Sept. 26, 2008 - Gonzalez-Garcia
ILLEGAL ALIEN SENTENCED TO LENGTHY TERM FOR ASSAULTING BP AGENT
(McALLEN, Texas) – Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia, 28, of Villa De Ramos, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, will be serving a total of 60 months in prison for assaulting a public official and being unlawfully present in the United States (Read more)
Sept. 26, 2008 - Jones
HOUSTON TAX PREPARER SENTENCED TO PRISON
(HOUSTON, Texas) - Rosalind D. Jones has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for placing false items on income tax returns (Read more)
Sept. 26, 2008 - Rodriguez
LYFORD MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) - A Lyford man has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer (Read more)
Sept. 26, 2008 - Hermandad de Pistoleros
PISTOLEROS SENTENCED
(LAREDO, Texas) – More gang members and associates of the Hermandad de Pistoleros Latinos (HPL) (Brotherhood of the Latin Gunmen) prison gang have been sentenced in federal court (Read more)
Sept. 25, 2008 - Trevino
SISTERS ALSO PLEAD GUILTY TO CARRYING COCAINE STRAPPED TO BODY
(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) – Laura Trevino and her sisters, Adriana and Evelia, have been convicted of conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute kilogram quantities of cocaine (Read more)
Sept. 25, 2008 - Castaneda & Pereira
ALIEN SMUGGLERS SENTENCED
(HOUSTON, Texas) - Everardo Flores-Castaneda, a Mexican national, and Gelber Cornelio Pereira, a native of Brazil, were sentenced late Wednesday, Sept. 24, for conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens within the United States for financial gain (Read more)
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