Larry D. Villalobos

Larry Villalobos began his law enforcement career during college studies in Washington DC, where he was a Fingerprint Technician for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Continuing to pursue a college education, Larry returned to Texas, where he worked for the Texas Department of Public Safety as an analyst and communications operator. 

In 1983 he joined the Drug Enforcement Administration as an analyst at the El Paso Intelligence initiative to dissect and document the activities of Mexican Cartels. In 1997 he was promoted and installed as the regional Field Intelligence Manager for Mexico and Central America at the US Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico and directed the DEA's intelligence initiatives for 11 DEA Offices in Mexico and 7 countries in Central America (Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama). 
 
During 2003 he was transferred to Tucson, Arizona, where he directed DEA's intelligence program for 3 DEA Officers in Southern AZ (Tucson, Sierra Vista, Nogales). In 2008 hew as promoted to Chief Intelligence Officer and directed the Analytical wing of the El Paso Intelligence Center, consisting of over 150 Special Agents and analysts in a multi-agency effort that includes Federal/State/Local/Tribal/Military and IC personnel. 
 
LD Villalobos is recognized as a Subject Matter Expert on Mexican Organized Crime and is only one of two Law Enforcement professionals to have interviewed world menace and transnational drug trafficker, Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman in Mexico and before his extradition. He has testified in Federal Court as a subject matter expert on violence in Mexico and Central America. Since his retirement in 2013, he has continued working as a mentor and trainer to law enforcement initiatives in Mexico and Central America as well as to US military components specializing in transnational drug organizations and the transnational challenges of MS 13 through Central America, Mexico, and the US. 
 
LD Villalobos graduated from the University of Texas-El Paso with a BS in Political Science-Criminal Justice and continues to hold a US government personnel to include US presidential cabinet-level personnel; foreign cabinet-level personnel; high-level US military personnel; has briefed before Congress and Senate committees and has briefed in the White House.