The US dismantles the Sinaloa Cartel network that extended from California to Washington DC

AP.- One drug trafficking network that sent drugs of Sinaloa Cartel for California to various criminal organizations in the area of ​​the capital of USA, Washington D.C., has been dismantled, local and federal authorities indicated.

A investigation which started in 2017 with the job of a county sheriff’s deputy Loudon assigned to a federal task force, and later expanded to seven states, resulted in more than 30 arrests and the confiscation of more than 100 firearms, $ 6 million in cash, jewelry and other assets; 215 kilograms of methamphetamine; 42 kilograms fentanyl and 129 kilograms of cocaine.

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In an age when overdose from drugs have increased during the pandemic, getting those narcotics off the streets “certainly saved countless lives of members of our communities,” said Raj Parekh, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California. Virginia.

The dealers drug of California linked to the Sinaloa Cartel —That used to be headed by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán– they also supplied a drug trafficking group in Dayton, Ohio, related to the 2019 murder of Jorge del Rio, a 55-year-old police officer from that city, who was shot while executing a search warrant as part of a special force of the Drug Control Administration (give said Jarod Forget, special agent in charge of the Division of the give on Washington.

A specific seizure in Loudoun County that included 50 kilograms of cocaine and 1.4 million Dollars cash was the largest of its kind in county history, Sheriff Mike Chapman said.

Seven organizations drug traffickers operating in and on the outskirts of the nation’s capital were dismantled within what police officers called Operation Angels Envyauthorities said.

In Alexandria this year, Romaine Anthony Dixon, 32, of Camp Springs, Maryland, was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for his involvement in the network, and Roger Vincent, 42, of Temple Hills, Maryland, 15 years.

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Two subjects of California related to Sinaloa Cartel —Michael Barroso of Bellflower and Roberto Ramirez Jr. of Fullerton — were sentenced to 10 years in jail in Alexandria, and a third awaits judgment.

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