ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico issued the following news release: A federal judge handed down a 14-year prison sentence to an Albuquerque man who was caught with more than 19 pounds of fentanyl in a hotel room. According to publicly available court records, on October 26, 2022, officers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs intercepted a load of fentanyl destined for Albuquerque during a routine traffic stop. The driver agreed to   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: This week, agents from the FBI and the Las Cruces/Dona Ana County Metro Narcotics Agency executed search warrants at the Imperial Sky Motel on West Picacho Avenue and other locations throughout Las Cruces as part of an ongoing operation targeting a Las Cruces based drug trafficking organization. During the operation, agents seized fentanyl, metha  more