US EditionUS charges five members of Mexico's United Cartels, imposes sanctions
The 2019 crash exposed a major methamphetamine trafficking network led by five United Cartels leaders, with $26 million in U.S. rewards offered for their capture, officials said.
- On Thursday, Aug. 14, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges targeting five senior figures within Mexico's United Cartels.
- The charges resulted from a multi-year investigation that began after two drug dealers crashed a vehicle in a small Tennessee town in 2019.
- The investigation included wiretaps, monitoring a hotel near Atlanta, uncovering narcotics concealed inside a tractor trailer, and a confrontation between police and a suspect who fired an AK-style rifle.
- The U.S. government has announced a reward of up to $10 million for tips that help capture Juan José Farías Álvarez, known as El Abuelo, who heads the United Cartels, along with multimillion-dollar bounties for four additional individuals.
- These indictments and economic sanctions by the Treasury Department mark an intensified U.S. effort to disrupt the cartel's drug trafficking from Mexico to American towns and prevent related violence.
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Car Crash In Tennessee Leads To Indictments Against Mexican Cartel
Image Credit: Roane County Visitor’s Bureau / Facebook & Canva The Tennessee Conservative Staff – A 2019 car accident in East Tennessee culminated in federal indictments from the Justice Department against Mexican cartel leaders. On Thursday, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against three leaders and two high-ranking enforcers of the United Cartels. It is believed that all five are in Mexico. They also announced a reward of up to $10 …
Car crash in Tennessee town leads to federal charges for Mexican drug cartel operators
WASHINGTON — The investigation began years ago after two drug dealers got into a car accident in a small Tennessee town. What followed was a series of secret wiretaps, a shootout with police and the discovery of drugs hidden in a tractor trailer that would eventually lead federal investigators back to cartel leaders in Mexico.
US Charges 5 Members of Mexico’s United Cartels - The Thinking Conservative
The Department of Justice on Aug. 14 charged five high-ranking members of the Mexican Carteles Unidos (United cartels) drug gang. The post US Charges 5 Members of Mexico’s United Cartels appeared first on The Thinking Conservative.
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