Narcotics & Organized Crime

The Southern District of Texas incorporates 200 miles of the United States Southwest Border and is crisscrossed by Interstate Highways (10, 35, 37, 45, and 69) and U.S. Highways (59, 90, 281, and 290) with direct routes to major metropolitan areas from Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and Del Rio. Transnational Criminal Organizations attempt to make use of these routes in order to further their criminal activities involving the trafficking of narcotics, human trafficking, human smuggling, weapons trafficking, and international money laundering. Many of these TCOs are designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations or do business with them.

Our district has AUSAs assigned to the Narcotics and Organized Crime Sections in the Houston and Galveston office as well as in our South Texas offices in Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Laredo, and McAllen. These attorneys are dedicated to patiently guiding a long-term investigation that often spreads years with the focus on building a prosecutable case against an entire organization which includes the identification, seizure and forfeiture of their assets and money. Many of these investigations have been designated as Homeland Security Task Force operations. The goal of the HSTF is to serve as a single, whole of government coordinated effort to combat threats posed to the homeland to stop the illegal trafficking of dangerous drugs and human beings, eliminate Cartels and TCOs, and the trafficking of firearms.