SAN DIEGO
A newly unsealed indictment from a San Diego federal jury charges an alleged Mexican drug cartel leader with drug trafficking, officials announced Wednesday.
Although it was just made public, the indictment naming Jesus Gonzalez Penuelas was returned more than four years ago, in January 2017, and a warrant for his arrest was issued at that time. The 51-year-old resident of the Mexican state of Sinaloa remains a fugitive, the San Diego U.S. Attorney’s office said in a news release.
Aside from the criminal case, Gonzalez Penuelas is also newly targeted with sanctions under the Kingpin Act, as he has been designated a “significant foreign narcotics trafficker,” the U.S. Department of Treasury said in a news release Wednesday. The sanctions are part of Operation Money Sweep, an effort to take apart drug trafficking organizations by going after suspected money laundering activities.
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The U.S. Attorney s Office says 41-year-old Aaron McKinney of Shreveport, known on the street as Dinosaur , was sentenced to ten years in prison for distribution of meth along with five years of supervised probation upon completion of his sentence.
Authorities say the sentence was handed down by a district judge for the man s charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Investigators with the government were able to get the required paperwork to monitor Dinosaur s calls and those of his fellow conspirators. They talked about acquiring meth, how much they were going to be able to get, what they were going to charge for their meth, and where they would meet to make these deals. The Drug Enforcement Agents worked the case.
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