The
Treasury Department on Thursday added to the Kingpin list, three brothers who they accuse of operating a
heroin cartel that contributed to the current epidemic in the United States.
WASHINGTON –
Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
designated brothers Job, Ismael, and Ruben Laredo Donjuan, as well as the
Laredo Drug Trafficking Organization (Laredo DTO), as Specially Designated
Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
(Kingpin Act). OFAC also designated five other Mexican nationals for
their criminal activities in support or on behalf of the Laredo Drug
Trafficking Organization or its leadership. As a result of today’s
action, all assets of those designated that are based in the United States or
in the control of U.S. persons are frozen, and U.S. persons are generally
prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
"The Laredo Drug
Trafficking Organization is responsible for contributing to the drug epidemic
and troubling rise of heroin abuse in this country,” said John E. Smith, OFAC
Acting Director. "Treasury is committed to working with our law
enforcement partners to dismantle criminal organizations that facilitate the
flow of illicit drugs into the United States.”
Since 2008, the Laredo
DTO has been involved in the manufacture, importation, and distribution of
heroin from Mexico to the United States, as well as the laundering of drug
proceeds from the United States to Mexico. The Mexico-based DTO is led by
brothers Job and Ismael Laredo Donjuan, who were charged in a federal
indictment last year brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania. Specifically, Job and Ismael Laredo Donjuan
were charged with being the principal leaders of a Continuing Criminal
Enterprise, among additional federal charges related to drug trafficking and
money laundering. The indictment also charges their respective wives,
Mercedes Barrios Hernandez and Daniela Gomez Velazquez, with multiple charges
related to money laundering, along with Antonio Marcelo Barragan, with a drug
trafficking charge. Additional Laredo DTO members designated today
include Ruben Laredo Donjuan, Andres Laredo Estrada, and Ismael Reyna Felix.
Today’s action was
taken in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia
Field Division and Mexico Country Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
Philadelphia Division, and the Mexican Comisión Nacional de Seguridad - Policía
Federal. This designation is part of a larger effort, in collaboration
with the Government of Mexico, to use financial sanctions aggressively to
disrupt Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
Since June 2000, more
than 1,800 entities and individuals have been named pursuant to the Kingpin Act
for their role in international narcotics trafficking. Penalties for
violations of the Kingpin Act range from civil penalties of up to $1.075
million per violation to more severe criminal penalties. Criminal
penalties for corporate officers may include up to 30 years in prison and fines
up to $5 million. Criminal fines for corporations may reach $10
million. Other individuals could face up to 10 years in prison and fines
pursuant to Title 18 of the United States Code for criminal violations of the
Kingpin Act.
Wow is this ever getting complicated in Tamp!New cartel or in some way related to....old school Zetas.....the Trevino bros. Zetas......Gulf cartel.....Los Rojos etc.etc.etc.?????
ReplyDeleteYou sir are an idiot .. This cartel is not from Laredo nor does it have a connection with anything going on in Tamps... READ !! Their last names is Laredo that's it... If anything they are brokering deals with the Sinaloa cartel since a lot of Mexican heroin is manufactured in the mountains of the golden triangle states ... Never I this article is Tamaulipas mentioned
DeleteTrue this criminal cell is from Guerrero
DeleteThis Laredo DTO must have a connection to pass their drugs to the US, but the US ain't sharing, it is like they voluntarily refrain from going after the real big ones, with more than a month in the business...
DeleteAmerica is mad because now it is White people and not Black people who are dying en masse of drug overdoses especially heroin. That's the only reason why they made El Chapo "public enemy number 1" in Chicago. They wouldn't and never did care when it was Black people dying of drug overdoses.
ReplyDeleteDo unto others as you want them to do unto you.
If that was the case then social programs to help the indigent wouldn't exist. Go read your bible again. Pay more attention.
DeleteReality check: the Mexicans took over the Chicago street trade, leaving very little for the black gangs that started fighting and killing each other over a smaller piece of the pie. The black gangs were unreliable business partners and drew too much attention to themselves by confusing business with celebrity - flashy clothes, bling, cars, and flashing cash in the strip clubs and then going on social media and bragging about it. Eventialy they get busted and roll on the low profile Mexicans up the food chain. Chapo and others tired of this and found more business oriented street dealers - Mexicans. So the blacks are fighting over the crumbs. It's lost on no one - except progressive politicians - that they almost never kill a Mexican in Chicago or any of the other cities in the country that this has happened in. Super Fly and Shaft are relics of the past.
DeleteWhat do social programs have to do with the bible?
DeleteUnbelievable comments,shows the mentality of some of these people
DeleteMother Mexico needs your help
DeleteCome on now . Give 2:29 a break . Young people figure they got it all figured out . I knew more than my dad til I was 25 . Now 3 decades later understand how ignorant I was . Or maybe he does only see everything from a racist point of view . The US has been putting heroin trafficker away a long long time . When did carrasco try to shoot his way out of huntsville prison ? They were locking up heoin dealers long before him.
Delete@9:10 The last sentence 2:29 made is an actual bible verse. But 2:29 has the verse twisted up in their view of things. And social programs are in the bible as well. And they continue to be a part of the American governments.
Delete@8:16
DeleteYou're a clown, first of all what you are talking about has nothing to do with what I said and secondly you are wrong about the reason why Mexican cartels work with American Latinos.
My point was that the only reason El Chapo was placed on the public enemy list and why there has been an increase in Heroin drug busts is because Whites are the ones dying of Heroine en masse now.
To address your second issue, the main reason why Latino gangs have more and easier access drug cartels is not because they are necessarily better business partners, are less flashy or whatever other reasons you gave. The real reason is simple, both the cartels and the latino gangs are wait for it "latino". Therefore it's easier for them to trust each other because they look alike and share similar heritages.
If Africans were shipping drugs to the USA en masse, their operatives will most likely blend in Black neighborhoods just like the Flores twins did in Latino dominated Chicago. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
Rocket scientist, blacks are middle men on the US, and they have a lot of mexican "connections"...
Delete--Whites also have a lot of connections to mexican and black and white middle men, and the majority of drug consumers on the US that buy the most drugs for the most of the money, are well off middle class america and their polished ass wives not the winos on the corner or down by the river or the railroad tracks or black and mexican 2 dollar hos...
@2:29 Get off it with you racist BS. The "War on Drugs" started with Nixon, and back then it was mostly black people who were on heroin in the inner-cities of the northeast. So some fact checking before you make stupid assertions like the one you just made!!
ReplyDeleteHarry Anslinger was the one who started the War on Drugs decades before Nixon coined the term War on Drugs....and it was all predicated on race.....
Deleteuh I'm pretty sure the are on drugs has contributed to the rise in incarceration, especially among minorities. The was on drugs was never about stemming drug use. It is about securing the monopoly on drugs for pharmaceutical companies
DeleteHe's actually right you know back in the seventies and sixties it was the black people who were addicted to heroin and you don't see people running around trying to stop black people from doing it they just didn't care now that white teenagers is doing good everybody's having a fit and trust me I ain't racist I'm a man who can see the truth
DeleteYou monkeys have added plenty Cartels n Capos to the Kingpin Act list, that doesn't stop there drug related activities. You monkeys are silly. Keep trying.
ReplyDeleteIt ain't gonna stop until people quit using.
ReplyDeleteThe last part of the movie "sicario" sum it up for me. You cant stop this crap. Hide you're head in a small town or get expose to this shit in a big city.
ReplyDeleteYup... people will always use im afraid. So it will never end. Only thing that would help is to legalize it and have the cartels come out of shadows. Tax it and legalize it. Just like alcohol. But Mexico really needs to get a handle on the violence. Its ridiculous in Mexico. Mass graves everywhere... beheadings daily.. And dont try and say the US is the same. Cuz its not thank god.
DeleteOk class is now in session. From ~1915 until passage of various laws in 1924, the U.S. had over 10,000 people on heroin maintenance programs. Most were middle age white women who worked in the home. The old saw about the U.S. not caring because only the blacks were addicted to H is a shop worn tune that was around in the 60's. If you will recall, much of the fervor about H in the 60's and 70's was because of the huge number of Vietnam Vets who were returning addicted to H. Couple this with the huge influx of H in the 70's and you have the making of a H epidemic. Cheap availability has been shown to lead to increased usage and addiction. Yes, Blacks have suffered much from drugs, but I believe public policy is driven more by the meteoric rise in O.D.'s and new addictions. Hey, some of this is of our own making due to the pharmaceutical race for bigger profits. Better living thru chemistry has come back to bite us in the ass. Buen Salud.
ReplyDeleteThe monkeys just want the money they don't care to stop the flow of drugs being on kingpin list means they can seize the assets of the accused all about the money on both sides
ReplyDeleteI hated living in Laredo. If it werent for some cops in Mexico, I would be dead right now. All for nothing.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the Mexican cops ere on your side?????
DeleteIt really doesn't pay to be a narco.. maybe a friend of a high ranking narco but not the top guy.. the top guys always get screwed.. el chapo learned this the hard way.. all of el chapos friends are going to live a cushy life from the money he gave them and he will take the fall
ReplyDeleteThese traffickers have nothing to do with the epidemic. There are plenty of suppliers.
ReplyDeleteThe spike in deaths is due to fentanyl and other fentanyl synthetics being added to heroin, and sometimes it's not heroin at all. The synthetic fentanyl I'm referring to are the semi-analogs, which believe it or not are legal, much like many "bath salts" were just a few years ago, from the same Chinese sources. These are research chemicals that are easy to buy online. The law can't keep up.
The US fought so cavalierly to re-start and re-introduce and to re-install the "cultivation" of heroin on afghanistan, please, don't tell me they don't tell me they ain't bringing some into the US, I mean some toneladas...
Deletei wonder how many more independent like these dudes exist ? do they exist in mexico as well ? organizations that lay low under the radar. guys that just buy and ship product and dont really put themselves on blast
ReplyDeleteThey failed to mention the biggest contributor to the epidemic are the "legal" drug companies and the US government.
ReplyDeleteWho were their connects? Zetas? CDS, CDG, BLO, CAF?? Who!
ReplyDeleteMost likely Guerreros Unidos.
DeleteI would go with zetas since they're right next to Nuevo Laredo , nectar lima or whatever they call it
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about these guys are from Guerrero
Deletey is this called the Laredo dto when all these vatos are from gro?
ReplyDeleteMost of them have the last name Laredo.
DeleteThese guys are from Guerrero Mex. Crazy.
ReplyDeleteIsmael Reyna Felix born in Baja California...any chance he's related to CAF members?
ReplyDeleteAll the gvt agencies involved in the War on Drugs should apologize to the American people for their disastrous failure over the past 40 years.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they won't.
In their world failure means success--more high paying jobs and job security and big pensions.
5:53 and continued yearly billions and billions of dollars to milk from the US taxpayer to waste and spend down on their "never ending as if by design" war on drugs.
Delete--And that is only the good news...