Reply Delete Both are now in prison for money laundering, and her sister, who has two children living in Kentucky, faces deportation. The cartel circulates these images of torture and execution on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to spread fear and intimidation. He also didn't want to be shunned by his close-knit family for betraying his uncle, a senior relative. I am a family man. The U.S government has crippled dozens ofbusinessesthat supported CJNGandsentElMenchosson and chief financial backer to prison, along with members of his inner circle. But betrayal awaited, "We see these nodes or pockets of cartel-related activity springing up in small, rural towns on the east side of Washington, in metropolitan areas like Portland and Seattle. Guanajuato. Hollie McKay has a been a Fox News Digital staff reporter since 2007. The government also alleges that Los Cabos targeted law enforcement in Tijuana, killing at least three police officers. Think of this violence extending into every facet of their global operations. Since the arrest and extradition to the U.S. of Sinaloa frontman Joaqun "El Chapo" Guzmn in 2016, analysts say that the CJNG has steadily encroached on new terrain including Tijuana bringing with it a recipe for bloodletting and groups waginga war of dominance. Sanctions recently imposed by the United States and Mexico on CJNG members allegedly linked to two high-profile murders demonstrate that the criminal group is one of the few remaining with a traditional hierarchical structure. Investigators uncovered three main pieces of the puzzle that revealed a snapshot of how this drug ring thrived. Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. They seized more than $1 million in drug moneyhis couriers were hauling to Mexico. When authorities arrested him, they found twoassault rifles, one inscribed with "Menchito" little Mencho and anotherengraved with"CJNG 02 JR.". El Menchos powerful international syndicate is flooding the U.S. with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl every year despite being targeted repeatedly by undercover stings, busts and lengthy investigations. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN ACCOUNT, SIGN UP FOR ONE HERE. She recruited helpers, too, and they frequently made deposits of less than $10,000 amounts small enough to dodge federal reporting requirements at bank branches in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee,as well asGreensboro and Winston-Salem,North Carolina. Sheriff's investigators say a Paducah, Kentucky, business owner who fell behind on a drug debt was warned last year by the cartel: "If we dont get our money, were gonna kill you and your family.. One of them interrogates the semi-nude Mendoza, who admits he sold drugs in Valle de Santiago, where gunmen assaulted a police station on Friday, killing five prisoners and freeing another. . Chicago prosecutors allegein court filingsthat LuisAlderetewas ahigh-level cartel operativewhoshopped for a hitman on Facebook to take care of a gang member in Cairo, Illinois, to silence him. Closethe air vents. It could hide 9 kilos of drugs and a pile of cash. Most people don't associate drug trafficking with the scenic tourist destinations along the Oregon coast, but Mexican cartels seek less scrutiny there. Its extreme savagery in Mexico includes beheadings, public hangings, acid baths, even cannibalism. Jason Hoover, who oversaw Walker and teamed to raid area drug houses in the case. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. During that time,overdoses sent more victims to Kentucky's morgues than bullets and car crashes combined withthe commonwealth sufferingthe fifth-highest overdose death rate in the nation. "They send their businessmen out into the U.S. to look for areas of opportunity." Drug dealers may not have worried about being caught here, in Clatsop County, a 90-minute drive northwest from the bustling city of Portland. Soldiers seized a couple of modified and armored trucks at a warehouse in the municipality of Camargo during a patrol on Saturday, local media reported. All rights reserved. Betrayal led to the drug ring'scollapse. A few instances of the harm: A co-defendant killed himself to avoid prison, and a 9-year-old girl tested positive for meth after her parents helped repackage drugs for resale. Mexican Cartel Members Sending Message To Rivals. But he kept getting caught. UNCENSORED VIDEO BELOW / New horrifying video shows three CJNG cartel members beheading two men from a rival cartel in Mexico. But DEA agents across the border are sharing intelligence and working with their Mexican counterparts to devise ways to dismantle CJNG and arrest its leaders. 7. 2023www.courier-journal.com. "When you hear about the drug cartels and the amounts of drugs coming across the border, you start thinking those are big city problems," said Clatsop County Sheriff's Sgt. . In a Chicago money-laundering case, a Guadalajara businessman working with CJNG urged an informant to settle his drug debt quickly, describing how cartel members settled another mans debt: "They chopped off his fingers.". CJNG took credit on social media for the massacre. CJNG's rapid rise to power and its expansion havestunned and stymied Americas top drug fighters. Smaller police forces. Alderete also is accused of asking a criminal informant in Paducahfor assault rifles andagrenade launcherto supplya cartel "war" in Mexico,saidJesseRiddle, the Narcotics Unit captain with the McCracken County Sheriffs Office in Paducah. He had a 1999 aggravated felony drug conviction in Multnomah County and was deported in 2001. 1nemesis, the Sinaloa Cartel, dominates the majority supply of everything from methamphetamine and heroin to the devastating synthetic opioid fentanyl into its northern border and beyond. Walker realized he wasn't the only one watching this drug ring. Roberto, 22, had a fianc and young daughter in Morelia, a city in Michoacn. In a desperate bid to cling to its remaining territory, the group has joined forces with a former rival: a fast-growing cartel called the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). "Theyre killing the next generation, and one of them was my son," Brenda Cooley said. //
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