Tag: Del Rio
Bobby Brandon Galvan, Firearms Trafficking, Texas 2025
⏱ 2 min read Bobby Brandon Galvan, a 30-year-old man from Dale, Texas, was found guilty of trafficking guns to the La Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM) cartel. Between September 2023 and April 2024, Galvan purchased 24 AK-47 styled firearms, which ended up in Toluca, Mexico for use by Mexican cartels. The investigation, led by the…
Paul Ivan Palmero-Martinez, Liquid Methamphetamine Smuggling, Texas 2022
⏱ 3 min read A convicted meth smuggler is headed to the slammer for 17 years after trying to sneak 163 kgs of liquid meth into the US in propane tanks. Paul Ivan Palmero-Martinez, 51, was driving a Ford F350 tow truck through the Eagle Pass Port of Entry on June 5, 2022, when he…
Jose Antonio Gabaldon-Salas, Cocaine Trafficking, Texas 2023
⏱ 3 min read A brazen cocaine trafficking operation was busted on I-35 near Abbott, Texas, on July 16, 2023. That’s when a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper pulled over Jose Antonio Gabaldon-Salas, a 30-year-old Mexican national with a deadly cargo. According to court documents, the trooper’s K-9 sniffed out three colored plastic bags…
Joel Contreras Jr., Smuggling of Persons with a Likelihood of Serious Bodily Injury or Death, Texas 2022
⏱ 2 min read Joel Contreras Jr., a 33-year-old Alabama man, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for his leadership role in a transnational alien smuggling organization operating in the US and Mexico. Contreras, a member of the Guzman Transnational Criminal Organization, worked directly with the Cartel De Jalisco Nueva Generacion, smuggling guns,…
Jerry Lee Anderson, Alien Smuggling, Texas 2024
⏱ 3 min read A deadly alien smuggling ring was busted in Texas when two of its members were sentenced to prison for their roles in a failed smuggling operation that left two people dead. Jerry Lee Anderson, 29, of Spring, and Orlin Wilfredo Padilla-Murillo, 25, an illegal alien from Honduras, were handed a combined…
Kenneth Wayne Mulkey, Attempting to Coerce and Entice a Minor, Texas 2024
⏱ 2 min read A former Texas high school coach, Kenneth Wayne Mulkey, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attempting to coerce and entice a minor. The disturbing incident occurred on October 11, 2024, when Mulkey, 44, used Snapchat to ask a 14-year-old boy in Orlando, Florida, for his age, sex,…
Mark Anthony Jimenez, Conspiracy to Traffic Firearms, Texas 2024
⏱ 2 min read Mark Anthony Jimenez, a 24-year-old Del Rio man, was involved in a conspiracy to traffic firearms, obtaining a pistol with a machine gun conversion device and purchasing 9mm ammunition. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discovered videos on Facebook showing Jimenez, a juvenile, and codefendant Alleena Nikole Soto…
