{"id":56509,"date":"2024-06-05T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T03:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=56509"},"modified":"2024-06-05T20:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T03:36:20","slug":"federal-grand-jury-indicted-47-alleged-members-of-california-based-gang-linked-to-sinaloa-cartel-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=56509","title":{"rendered":"Federal Grand Jury Indicted 47 Alleged Members of California-Based Gang Linked to Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div class=\"field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6373\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/>Fourteen indictments were unsealed Wednesday, charging 47 alleged members of an Imperial Valley, California-based fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution network linked to the Sinaloa Cartel with drug trafficking, firearms, and money laundering offenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On Monday, officials stated that more than 400 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials arrested 36 defendants and executed 25 search warrants in Imperial County; San Diego; Fresno, California; Los Angeles; Phoenix; and Salem, Oregon. As of this afternoon, the search continues for 11 fugitives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7470 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US_border_patrol_patch-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US_border_patrol_patch-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US_border_patrol_patch-45x35.jpeg 45w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US_border_patrol_patch.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Including seizures on Wednesday and throughout the long-term investigation, authorities have confiscated more than four kilograms of fentanyl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This amounts to about two million potentially fatal doses; more than 324 kilograms (over 714 pounds) of methamphetamine; significant quantities of cocaine and heroin; and 52 firearms, including handguns and rifles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The investigation also resulted in the arrest of Alexander Grindley for alleged methamphetamine trafficking while employed as a U.S. Border Patrol agent and multiple spin-off investigations in this district and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Crimes charged in the indictments include drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun-related offenses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Court documents indicated the defendants were operating throughout the Imperial Valley\u2014in Brawley, El Centro, Westmoreland, Imperial, Calexico, Niland, Holtville, and Calipatria\u2014and in Mexicali, Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32005 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;This investigation tore apart a drug trafficking network responsible for supplying dealers in communities across the region,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath for the Southern District of California. \u201cBut there is still much work to be done. If you\u2019re a parent and today\u2019s price of fentanyl terrifies you, talk to your kids about the dangers of drug use. If you\u2019re an addict and your dealer was arrested today, seek treatment. And if you\u2019re a dealer but your supplier was arrested today, look out \u2013 we are coming for you next.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39979 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/judge-gavel-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"189\" \/>\u201cToday, the El Centro Border Patrol Sector teamed with allied law enforcement agencies to support both Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of California in this operation,\u201d said Chief Gregory Bovino of the U.S. Border Patrol\u2019s El Centro Sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to the indictments and search warrants, the defendants belonged to various trafficking organizations that were part of an extensive network supplying all of Imperial County and beyond with dangerous drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court records, on June 30, 2021, agents seized two pounds of methamphetamine and a cache of ghost guns and ammunition, including 15 lower receivers, three upper receivers, multiple barrels and stocks, 18 magazines, 40 Luger 9mm rounds, and approximately 400 rounds of .223 Red Army ammunition, which are made in Russia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">None of the firearms or firearm parts had any identifying serial numbers or markings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">They were all ghost guns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Wiretap intercepts showed that defendant Cory Gershen supplied other members of the organization with ghost guns in exchange for methamphetamine. The investigation also revealed the assault rifles (depicted below) were destined for the organization\u2019s source of supply in Mexico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media entity-type-media entity-bundle-image media--image--embedded entity-image-1354591\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"field__item img_wrp\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/d9\/styles\/banner\/public\/2024-06\/picture1.png?itok=fgATunFB\" alt=\"Multiple AR-style firearms, parts, pistols, magazines, unfinished firearm parts used to create ghost guns, and a cache of Russian made ammunition.\" width=\"632\" height=\"473\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On June 30, 2021, agents seized additional ghost guns, ammunition, and methamphetamine from another member of the same drug trafficking organization, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Specifically, agents seized two AR-style ghost guns, a Colt .380 semiautomatic handgun, and additional Russian rifle ammunition from defendant Guadalupe Molina-Flores, one of the alleged members of the trafficking organization. According to a search warrant, after seizing the firearms, agents searched Molina-Flores\u2019 residence and found 309.4 grams (0.68 pounds) of methamphetamine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media entity-type-media entity-bundle-image media--image--embedded entity-image-1354586\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"field__item img_wrp\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Two more AR-style rifles, a pistol, magazines, and Russian made ammunition. Notably, these were exchanged for drugs.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/d9\/styles\/banner\/public\/2024-06\/picture2_0.jpg?itok=a71XmlEB\" alt=\"Two more AR-style rifles, a pistol, magazines, and Russian made ammunition. Notably, these were exchanged for drugs.\" width=\"930\" height=\"665\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Fentanyl continues to be a prolific killer. Imperial County experienced 24 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022, the most recent full year of data available from the California Department of Public Health. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The annual mortality rate for 2022 was 13.57 deaths per 100,000 residents, an increase of 41% from 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The investigation revealed that the price per fentanyl pill has plummeted. For example, in June 2021, targets of the investigation were obtaining fentanyl pills in Imperial Valley at approximately $1.65 to $1.75 per pill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">By December 2021, the discussed prices had dropped to approximately $1.25 per pill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">By May, the same pills were being sold at only 45 cents per pill \u2014 less than one-third of the price three years earlier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The precipitous drop in price reflects the increased supply and availability of fentanyl being smuggled into the United States and the close ties between the targets of this investigation and their Sinaloa Cartel supplier of fentanyl pills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task 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