As reported by The Vancouver Sun
Ariel Savein was handed a term of 30 months, which amounts to the time he spent in pre-trial custody in both Vancouver and San Diego. Savein will also remain on supervised release for three years, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn L. Huff ruled.
Written submissions filed for the sentencing hearing by Savein’s defence lawyer and U.S. prosecutors are sealed.
Savein, 30, was arrested in July 2011 after a massive two-year undercover investigation into Mexican cartels by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
He was one of several Canadian money couriers used by the Sinaloa and La Familia cartels to collect millions owed to the gangs by local drug traffickers.
Savein and others working for the cartels in the Lower Mainland were also assigned to deliver the cash to a cartel contact in Vancouver.
What they didn’t realize at the time is that the man who collected duffel bags containing millions was an undercover Vancouver Police officer working with a DEA agent who infiltrated the Sinaloa cartel and brought down dozens of its key people.
Savein was caught making one delivery for La Familia, a smaller cartel with close ties to Sinaloa.
He arrived in the parking lot of the Rona Home & Garden store on Grandview Highway in east Vancouver in April 2010 with $811,850 stuffed in a duffel bag and two cloth shopping bags.
Savein told the VPD officer he was worried someone might see the money sticking out of one of his bags.
After his 2011 arrest, Savein fought his extradition for more than three years before the B.C. Court of Appeal ordered him to surrender to American authorities last summer.
He was flown to San Diego in early September and pleaded guilty Sept. 30, 2014.
Two Mexican men living in Vancouver, who delivered more than $6 million in cartel cash in the same case, were earlier sentenced to 46 months each in San Diego.
Savein, who graduated from Vancouver’s Point Grey Secondary in 2003, had no criminal record in B.C., though he was once suspected in a fraudulent lottery scam.
But police sources say he did have links to a former B.C. gangster named Shane (Wheels) Maloney, who is now in jail in Montreal awaiting trial on charges of smuggling cocaine into Canada.
Savein was also listed in a document obtained by The Vancouver Sun as an associate of Montreal’s premier pot smuggler Jimmy Cournoyer, sentenced by a New York judge last August to 27 years for running a major international drug ring linked to the Hells Angels, the Mafia and the Sinaloa cartel.
What's this douche bag 30 going on 14. Get us a more recent picture why don't yous! What's going on here!
ReplyDeletejeeze, calm down yourself, there are only 2 photos I could locate, both from HS.
Delete@ 10:04 Why you gotta be worried about the picture from the douche bag? lol
DeleteHe had no documented criminal offense before. It was his first time getting caught! now the thing is... is the douche bag going to continue his criminal career from there! He only got 30 months. while the other nopales got 46 months maybe it was cause they are pros in mx. lol
Pass me a crayon chivis il draw him a more up to date one
DeleteHaha I know get on google yourself and try to find some if you want to look at this guy so bad
DeleteIn this case "As reported by The Vancouver Sun" includes the picture that was posted. If you can find a more recent picture of him and pass it along, I would be happy to use it.
DeleteDONT WORRY 10.04 AM ,,LOOK 4 ARTICLE ON ++++SUNDAY 21 2014,,AND YOU HAVE THIS GUY THERE ON A RECENT PIX.,,DONT FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM ,OK JIJIJIJI
DeleteThe only picture this douche bag has is the picture of himself being a douche...what u talking bout Willis!!!
DeleteThe [many] agents and government assets spent 2.5 years to put this moneylaunderer away for 2 years. Records sealed? Why? Fought extradition for three years, served 2.5 years, arrived in San Diego in early Sept., released Sept.30ish. Was he allowed to keep the proceeds from his criminal enterprise? Taxpayers arent getting their money's worth but the money launderers are.
ReplyDeleteLmao daaaaaaaaanm. . Calm down dude..
ReplyDeleteAnd if there was no photo with the article, @10:04 would not have made any comment....take your meds.
ReplyDeleteSo the Caucasian canadian gets less time than the Mexicans? Where have I seen that b4
ReplyDeleteDidn't you read? he had no criminal record!
Deleteyes who u think runs things
DeleteJimmy cournoyer just got 27 years and he is white. He does have a record with getting caught with drug dealing. Just about anyone will get a lighter sentence first time getting arrested
DeleteYou should correct the glaring spelling mistake in the title. It's "sentenced" not "sentanced". Otherwise, keep up the good work, all of you. I read BB every day.
ReplyDeletePlease correct the glaring spelling mistake on your user name you don't spell knob like that lol
DeleteAll the tremendous police investigation, arrests, etc. Not a noticeable dent. anywhere in the availability of mind altering chemicals, or the corruption or the pain and suffering and the impunity. WTF? Spinning wheels in the wind. Ya me cansa. What a slick operator. Wonder if he will be put into some protection system? Wonder if the CIA could torture him for some information that could save lives, or protect guilty? Ya me cansa. Not long ago I saw my first armored ambulance in the Tierra Caliente. And abuelo walking the streets with his single shot. Ya me cansa.
ReplyDeleteWell said. To break the cycle we must start with the consumer, end consumption and the system collapses on itself.
DeleteHello from Texas
ReplyDeleteKelley Welles
This guy got no punishment. When he leaves the joint he will probably have a boat load of cash or CDS will be sending a hit squad to kill him for all the dough he lost to the DEA.
ReplyDeleteOnly cuz he is white he got a slap on the wrist....
ReplyDeleteWRONG. Lets see it like it is. Hes criminal record was clean he had no convictions. That helps with the sentencing, the judges take a note on that.
Delete....The mxicans got more because in the first place they were in a country that isn't theirs. Second they probably had a criminal rapsheet. Mexicans sometimes do the same with illegal inmigrants that stay in mx when they supposedly "commit crimes"
that's some good lawyers right there
ReplyDeleteTo the willis sending in complaints this article is old. Yes it was 18 hours old when Itzli posted it.
ReplyDeleteI am not going to post your rude comment. But here take a look
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNQN_enUS471US472&q=Ariel+Savein%2c+Cartel+Money+Launderer%2c+Sentanced+to+Time+Served+in+U.S.
the foto with the car, you are correct I posted with an article a while back. ...and?
re you lost without photos? whatever... the photo above is the same as the Sun published. so go to them and complain.
and stay there
who need a photo, good reporting
DeleteThat pinche White boy was playing with the big dogs??? How funny.
ReplyDeleteGodblastenndmmint, ariel savein artlickle is on the popular posts on the right, are you trying to kill somebody chivis??? I know, the guy is 'cute' and kind of frustrating for people like old willis; nothing like the real thing willis, right???
ReplyDeleteThe popular post is programmed by blogger and is generated by number of views.
ReplyDeleteas for the remainder of your comment, I have no idea what you are trying to say
I mean willis wants the boy in full HD color and preferably in person, because he looks terribly cute and young in black and white, that is the cause of his frustration,
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ ur retarded. Why r u still talking about this. Just read the article and appreciate the content.
DeleteUnless you are comfortable with the Los Angeles DUI attorney and their office staff. And believe they will fight for what it is you want and need, you will not be happy with the results.
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