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Charged with drug trafficking are the owners / operators of commercial bus companies from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley, many U.S. cities and their drivers were charged with the transport of heavy loads of marijuana and cocaine in specially modified commercial buses and with the help of techniques of money laundering.
According to the U.S. government’s indictment was sealed recently, the use described by specially modified commercial buses by alleged drug dealers in the smuggling into the United States in Monterrey, Mexico, or the transportation involved in the smuggling of the Rio Grande Valley to Houston and Dallas, Texas Allentown , Pennsylvania, Joliet, Illinois and elsewhere. The indictment accuses the owners or managers of the Transtar, Neptune Tours, Los Primos, USA-MEX and Ameri-Mex bus commercial companies, offices and terminals in Monterrey, Mexico, and Rio Grande City, Roma, San Antonio and Houston, Texas, used its various businesses as fronts for their drug transport services, and hire drivers and loaders to the illegal cargo in hidden compartments built into the bus transportation or areas not accessible to the public. In return for the services, the indictment accuses the owners or managers of bus companies received thousands of dollars in kickbacks from the proceeds of drug load, which they got their share and paid the driver and shipper. According to the indictment, this drug transport service in operation since at least November 2001 and is responsible for transporting hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, have been shown thousands of pounds of marijuana from the border to the north, and millions of dollars in drug goes south to Mexico . OCEDTF Operation Road King II targeted this organization beginning in 2001 and by the use of proven techniques of investigation, communication, coordination and cooperation, after all, a sophisticated undercover operation. With this covert operation were more than 570 kilograms of cocaine seized 3000 kilos of marijuana and more thousands of dollars in cash. In addition, the cost of this multi-agency investigation into arrests and the seizure of 200 kilograms of cocaine in Allentown and 1,100 pounds of marijuana has resulted in Joliet. The information was collected on the survey with the enforcement of the law in other U.S. cities like New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, divided Alabama, Florida and Maryland.
The indictment is the result of a long-term fight against organized crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation called Operation Road King II

John P. Walters, director of the Office of the White House National Drug Control Policy noted that the federal positive impact the coordinated and cooperative effort, public policies and the local police have had to reduce the supply of drugs and the concomitant decline in demand is impressive.
The special agent in charge of Andrew Bland of FBI Houston, together with the Special Agent in charge Yankovich Zoran B. DEA Houston, their law enforcement colleagues recognized in the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (HIDTA), which in this case, including the Houston Police Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for their longstanding commitment and outstanding contributions to this OCDETF investigation. The U.S. Marshals Service, which was also a member of HIDTA, recognized for his extraordinary efforts during the shutdown.
The indictments U.S. Department of Justice shows Abel Trevino Jr., 43, of Houston, Oscar Jaime Garcia Prado, 42, living in Resident Alien Brookshire, Texas, Miguel Montemayor, 39, a resident alien residing Rome, Texas, Victor Hinojosa, 41 , a resident alien residing in Houston, and Eduardo Trevino, 40, of Linares, Mexico, the owners / managers of the various commercial bus companies as fronts for transporting cocaine and marijuana from Mexico to various locations in the United States in return for cash payments. The indictment adds that the amount of the payment often depends on the type of drug, the size of the load and its final destination. For example, the indictment accuses the defendants charge from 0 per kilogram of cocaine for the U.S. side of the border, bound per 000 kilograms of cocaine to New York. The buses were specially equipped with hidden compartments to conceal loads of contraband from detection. According to allegations in the indictment, the owners / managers discussed ways to use their buses to protect against detection by law enforcement authorities, including changing the names of bus companies as loads of cocaine and were leased from marijuana to the use of buses, confiscated at another. arrested Abel Trevino, Montemayor and Hinojosa were presented today in Houston. The arrest warrant remains outstanding for the arrest of Prado and Eduardo Trevino.
Leticia Enedina Fournier, 58, Guadalupe Karr Cortez, 47, illegal alien, Jesse Trevino, 48, a resident alien, and Alejandro Camargo-Guerra, 59, a resident alien, all of Houston; Victor Rocha, 39, a resident alien in Dickinson, Texas, and Alvaro Enrique Saldana, 53, live living resident foreigners in Rome, in Texas, are alleged co-conspirators from the owners and managers as bus drivers and loaders hired, paid, to the owners / managers of transportation and loads on the drug board the bus by commercial owners / managers provide guided hidden. This morning, agents Trevino and Rocha in Houston survey, Camargo-Guerra in Waco, Texas, and arrested Cortez in Lake Charles La remain Warrants for the arrest of Fournier and Saldana excellent .
Guadalupe Castaneda, 46, of Roma, Texas, Eduardo Cirilo, 42, of Pharr, Texas, Eduardo Salinas, 29, of Mission, Texas, Jose Armando Muniz, 33, of Weslaco, Texas, Rafael Armando Ramirez, 32, an illegal alien residing in the Houston area, Luis Larios, 36, and Robert Salazar Rivera, 48, both of Monterrey, Mexico, are accused of and payment for services to bus loads of cocaine and marijuana to various locations in the United States, United transporting states. Eduardo Salinas was arrested today morning in McAllen, Texas, while Cirilo was arrested today in Baton Rouge excellent, Louisiana remain Warrants for the arrest of Castaneda, Muniz, Ramirez, Larios and Rivera.
According to the FBI all 18 defendants in the conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, charged and convicted face not less than 10 years and have a maximum of life imprisonment if. Most defendants are also of conspiracy to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and sentenced the defendants face up to 20 years jail if. The remaining 14 counts charge various defendants with aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute varying amounts of cocaine and marijuana in the front and punishment on conviction of imprisonment of not more than five years to life imprisonment and million dollar fines.
The indictment is an indication of the accused for the United States their interests in a number of homes in the east of Houston, Texas, is said to be losing to facilitate or obtained with the proceeds of the crimes alleged in the indictment.
This case will be managed by the Assistant United States Attorney Jesse Rodriguez prosecuted.

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