Colorado Drug Bust Tracker

Interstate bust exposes CO trafficking risks.

• Reymondo Mandonado, Colorado man, pleaded guilty after NM police found 323 lbs meth and 10.6 lbs...

IRS spearheads charges against two Colorado women and an associate in a multi-state methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering scheme.
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Massive LE push: Colorado Springs police made 381 arrests last week (March 8-14) in El Paso County, tackling hit-and-runs, assaults, and stabbings.

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Severity ramps up in Northern Colorado trafficking cases:

• Local man gets 159 years for six meth/fentanyl distribution counts after major bust.
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Western Slope interstate bust intercepted major drug load:

• Travis Christopher Schultz, 37, from Grand Junction, arrested February in Blanding, Utah;...

Epic federal-local collab: FBI Denver, Denver PD, and Aurora PD targeted a house, seizing 100 lbs meth, 5,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, cocaine, and a...

Routine enforcement hits Pueblo's nuisance home on Spruce St, plagued by illicit narcotic activity.

• 16 contacted, 3 arrested including Diedre...

Aurora's new traffic law enables huge fentanyl bust:

• Officer Fernandez pulls over silver Hyundai for slow speed and mismatched plates near Iliff...

Federal sentencing delivers accountability in southern Colorado fentanyl case:

• Thomas Galiano III (26): 12 years; Hailee Anne Helton (26): 14 years...

Western Slope enforcers strike again via persistent surveillance and traffic stops:

• Melvin Hunsberger, 50, arrested Wed. after eluding cops at Panda...

Major superseding indictment unsealed against René “La Rana” Arzate-García, Sinaloa Cartel Tijuana plaza boss, for narcoterrorism, terrorism support,...

Federal optimism on CJNG disruption post-El Mencho: U.S. Attorney McNeilly hopes for weakened cartel and less drug flow to Colorado.

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Denver police launched a public manhunt for John Albert Strandburg, 54, wanted on a warrant for fentanyl distribution resulting in death.

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Major multi-agency bust targets transnational threats:

• Two men arrested after seizure of tens of thousands of drugs
• HSTF-DEA partnership combats criminal cartels, foreign gangs
• Whole-of-government effort against transnational crime

Major sentences in Jaydynn Hogan case signal strong deterrence:

• Dealers Gabriel Orozco (168 months) and Destiny Salazar (144 months) pleaded guilty...

The DEA gives official notice of property seized in Denver for federal forfeiture due to violation of federal law. Key signal of intensified asset seizures in the city's drug enforcement efforts.

Major Sinaloa bust: Ivan Valerio Sainz Salazar, aka 'Mantecas', charged in US indictment for producing millions of fentanyl pills for the Chapitos...

Major federal bust targets metro Denver drug network:

• Eight suspects from Denver, Aurora, Commerce City, Wheat Ridge indicted
• Charges include drug...

FBI-Led Front Range Raids

• 🔥 FBI Denver coordinated multi-jurisdictional warrants across the Front Range targeting illegal guns and narcotics,...

Multi-agency coordination ramps up against illegal firearms and narcotics across Colorado's Front Range.

• Fort Collins-led operation: 9 warrants...