LOS ANGELES – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer who once worked at Los Angeles International Airport and his ex-wife have been found guilty by a federal jury of multiple felonies for participating in a narcotics distribution ring that moved hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, heroin and marijuana from the Los Angeles area to Chicago.Manuel Porras Salas, … [Read more...]
High Profile Global Drug Kingpin Arrives in US After Massive Cocaine Conspiracy Indictment Unsealed
LOS ANGELES – A high-level member of a global drug ring arrived in Southern California last night after being extradited from Colombia on charges that he conspired to transport cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars from South America to Mexico for eventual sale in the United States. The extradition resulted from a coordinated, international law enforcement … [Read more...]
El Paso Attorney Guilty of Money Laundering
Following a week-long trial, El Paso lawyer Marco Antonio Delgado was found guilty of devising a scheme to launder up to $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel.Delgado, a former Carnegie Mellon University trustee devised the scheme for the now-disbanded Milenio Mexican drug cartel in 2007 and 2008. He defended the charges on the basis that they were … [Read more...]
Mexican Mafia & La Familia Intended Joining Forces to Expand Drug Cartel in the US
LawFuel.com - The Law Newswire and Law Marketing Service Cartel Initiated Alliance with Prison Gang that is also Targeted in Second Indictment for Exercising Control Over Large South L.A. County Street Gang LOS ANGELES – A coalition of federal, state and local authorities this morning arrested eight defendants … [Read more...]
International Drug Smuggling Conspiracy Defendants Sentenced
LawFuel.com - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANCOIS SOUROU AHISSOU, a citizen of Togo, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to participating in a conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States. AHISSOU was arrested in Monrovia, Liberia, in coordination with Liberian authorities in February 2011 … [Read more...]