35 Members of a Major Mexican Drug-Trafficking Organization Indicted in Operation Money Train

OCT 09 -- (San Diego, CA) - Thirty-five individuals have been charged in six separate federal indictments involving six illegal narcotics distribution and money laundering cells operating throughout Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and Calexico, California, United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today. The six indictments charging the defendants with various narcotics and money-laundering violations,were unsealed today in the Southern District of California following the arrests of 19 defendants; 16 defendants remain at large. All 35 defendants are of a Mexican drug-trafficking organizations operating in Imperial County, California. >> Full Story