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BEAUMONT, Texas – A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment this week in Beaumont charging seven inmates at U.S. ....
December 14, 2021 Joseph “Norte Joe” Gomez, the lead defendant in a large-scale 32 defendant federal indictment, was sentenced last Tuesday by a U.S. District Court Judge in the District of Utah. Judge Tena Campbell sentenced Gomez to serve 14 years in federal prison with five years of supervised release to follow his incarceration after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to launder money. All thirty-one members and associates of the Norteños street gang responsible for distributing drugs around the Salt Lake City area have pleaded guilty and four lower-level defendants have yet to be sentenced. Most of the defendants in this case have received sentences between 72 and 96 months. ....
June 1, 2021 The grand jury issued a 27-defendant, 34-count indictment on Wednesday, charging twenty-seven individuals associated with the Nortenos gang for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin across the Wasatch Front. Previously, it returned five other indictments relating to this investigation and operation. The charges follow joint Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force operations conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Metro Narcotics Task Force (DEA), the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division (IRS), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Unified Police Department’s Metro Gang Unit (MGU), and the United States Marshals Service. ....