Cartel Trafficker Caught With Enough Fentanyl 'To Kill 14 Million People'

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Cartel Trafficker Caught With Enough Fentanyl 'To Kill 14 Million People'

U.S. Attorney's Office press release...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The mastermind behind an extensive drug trafficking  ring entered a guilty plea this week, and four other defendants either entered pleas or were sentenced recently to substantial terms in prison for distributing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Newport News and North Carolina.

“Fentanyl and heroin have inflicted immeasurable amounts of pain and brought devastation to families across the United States and in EDVA,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of  Virginia. “Due to their tenacity and commitment, our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners seized 24 illegal firearms, 30 kilograms of heroin, and enough fentanyl to kill over 14 million people, saving  our communities from significant loss of life and destruction.”

According to court documents, Ramiro Ramirez-Barreto, 44, from the Mexican State of Morelos, operated a continuing criminal enterprise with  ties to Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, and California.  Ramirez-Barreto was linked to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, as were his drug sources, and his operation supplied cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl  to numerous drug trafficking organizations in Newport News, Virginia and in Henderson and Greensboro, North Carolina. According to one of  Ramirez-Barreto’s many North Carolina customers, Ramirez-Barreto  supplied him with 60 kilograms of heroin from early 2018 to mid-2019. Another one of Ramirez-Barreto’s customers was an inmate in federal prison operating a drug trafficking organization in Henderson, NC using a bootleg mobile phone.

https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/post/cartel-trafficker-caught-with-enough-fentanyl-to-kill-14-million-people