American Military News by Marc Ramirez - The Dallas Morning News August 30, 2020
Cartel boss, 27 others charged in $10 million drug scheme involving Dallas western-wear store
Federal authorities have charged a Mexican cartel boss known as “The Rock†along with 27 co-conspirators in a $10 million money-laundering scheme run through a Dallas western-wear retailer.
Court documents allege that Jose Valdovinos Jimenez, a territory boss called “La Roca,†conspired with his codefendants to smuggle vast amounts of methamphetamine and heroin for sale into the U.S., where the proceeds were laundered and transferred back to leaders of the Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel, or CJNG.
According to Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, the cartel is one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug operations.
In a 38-count superseding indictment unsealed Friday, a federal grand jury charged the 28 individuals with conspiracy to launder monetary instruments – as well as other financial, drug, and gun crimes, including conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, conspiracy to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm by an undocumented person.
At Jimenez’s direction, authorities say, mid- and upper-level dealers took drug profits to Yoli’s Western Wear, a clothing retailer in the Pleasant Grove area. There, 23-year-old manager Ivan Noe Valerio and family members counted and separated the money into thousands of transactions transferred back to CJNG in Mexico.
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