Nine Illegal Aliens Arrested in Drug Bust

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Nine Illegal Aliens Arrested in Drug Bust

    by BREITBART TEXAS
    14 Apr 2017
    Providence, RI

    Federal authorities dismantled a large drug trafficking organization alleged of importing narcotics from Mexico through the southern border.

    The drug trafficking organization, comprised of over a dozen individuals, was run by three brothers, Hector Valdez, 47, Claudio Valdez, 44, and Juan Valdez, 50, all of whom are Dominican nationals living in the U.S., according to a statement from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

 
    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...ted-drug-bust/

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Breitbart "reporting" can be very frustrating.  I saw that this was from Breitbart: Texas and wanted to see where these guys were living and arrested.  Breitbart article doesn't say.  Going to the source article reveals this:

Fifteen Arrested in Three New England States as Mexico to Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut Heroin and Cocaine Supply Chain Broken

Nine Dominican nationals face deportation proceedings, including three previously deported brothers alleged to have run the drug trafficking operation

PROVIDENCE, RI – Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Stephen G. Dambruch, and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Field Division, today announce the dismantling of a significant drug trafficking organization importing substantial quantities of heroin and cocaine shipped from Mexico via the Southwest border of the United States directly into Rhode Island.

Acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Dambruch noted in court documents that the Valdez Drug Trafficking Organization, run by three brothers, Hector Valdez, 47 and Claudio Valdez, 44, Dominican nationals living in Woonsocket, R.I., and Juan Valdez, 50, also a Dominican national living in Milton, Mass. The three brothers, who allegedly reentered the county after having been previously convicted of felony drug crimes and deported, arranged for several shipments of multi-kilograms of heroin and cocaine to be brought from Mexico to stash houses in Cranston and Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The drugs were then distributed to mid-level drug dealers and street dealers in the greater Providence and greater Boston areas and in Hartford, Connecticut...