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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Chemical Broker Sentenced To Nearly 19 Years For Supplying Drug Cartel With Massive Amounts Of Fentanyl, Meth Precursors

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat





A chemical broker responsible for illegally supplying one of Mexico’s largest and most dangerous drug cartels with enough precursor chemicals to produce more than 2 billion doses of fentanyl and 700 million doses of methamphetamine was sentenced Feb. 23 to almost 19 years in federal prison following a multiagency investigation spearheaded by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles, with assistance from U.S. Marshals Service’s Investigative Operations Division and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Joint Interagency Task Force West.

HSI Executive Associate Director Katrina W. Berger, acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram made the announcement.
Javier Algredo Vazquez, a 56-year-old resident of Queens, New York, was sentenced to 18 years and eight months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine for unlawful importation into the United States, conspiracy to distribute a List I chemical to manufacture methamphetamine for unlawful importation into the United States, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Algredo Vazquez was convicted of the charges in July 2023.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Algredo Vazquez procured more than 5 million kilograms of chemicals, including methylamine, and imported them into Mexico for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion to produce illicit narcotics and traffic them into the United States. Algredo Vazquez also transferred millions of dollars from the United States to chemical suppliers in China and India to procure the chemicals.
Trial Attorney Kate Naseef, acting Assistant Deputy Chief Nhan Nguyen, and acting Deputy Chief Kaitlin Sahni of the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section prosecuted the case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs and Mexican Attorney General’s Office assisted in securing the conviction.

The Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which is based in the State of Jalisco in Mexico, is one of the largest, most dangerous and most prolific drug cartels in Mexico and is responsible for transporting tonnage quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl and other drugs into the United States.

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HSI is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for investigating transnational crime and threats, specifically those criminal organizations that exploit the global infrastructure through which international trade, travel and finance move. HSI’s workforce of more than 8,700 employees consists of more than 6,000 special agents assigned to 237 cities throughout the United States, and 93 overseas locations in 56 countries. HSI’s international presence represents DHS’ largest investigative law enforcement presence abroad and one of the largest international footprints in U.S. law enforcement.



14 comments:

  1. With that amount of doses,only 19 years.Wrong.

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    1. @1:17 I see. Maybe voluntary giving up of assets or giving information and cooperating or avoiding having to go through a trial.

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  2. Perhaps he had a chance to meet Mencho, with all that amount I'm sure he was invited to a private party 🥳

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  3. 19 years??? He got a better deal than Black Friday specials

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  4. So in 2023 77 million fentanyl pills were seized. If you believe the 2 billion number that is equal to 26 years worth of seizures. No one knows what percent of the total are seized but it must be very small. Apparently the seizures don’t impact the market much if at all.

    Just like the massive cocaine and meth seizures don’t seem to impact markets much.

    I think some heroin seizures in the 70s along with shutting down French and pizza connections did impact prices and purity for a while. Declining poppy production in Afghanistan may be having a similar impact in Europe today.

    In general it seems that the supply chains are very resilient.

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    1. Most of the french connection heroin ended up back on the streets, compliments of rogue narcotics detectives..
      🥺

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    2. Thanks…I believe you are correct in that some seized wound up on the streets. The pricing/purity impact was from shutting down the ongoing smuggling operations.

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  5. I’m sure this guy gave up a lot of money, contacts, businesses, networks, enemies in order to work a good plea deal. Com dinero (y information) baila el 🙉

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  6. Chinese never go to jail for facilitating trash that become fentanyl 🖕🏿

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  7. Like when will we see Chinese names on here. They are ultimately the ones responsible.

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  8. Cjng also is in the Fenty business.

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    1. 100% 1044 but nobody was as stupid as Ivan

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    2. Cjng has the government on their payroll. No going after their labs.
      Sinaloa Cartel is getting busted left and right.

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