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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Two cause trafficking organizations that run successful West Virginia, 1 of which has ties to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, were "dismantled" aft a national expansive assemblage returned 25 indictments, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia (USAO) announced Tuesday.
Ismael “El Mayo” ZambadaThe alleged laminitis of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to manufacture and administer fentanyl successful El Paso, Texas aft his arrest past week.
Zambada was arrested adjacent the Mexican border along with the lad of notorious cause lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The brace were arrested past Thursday aft the 2 flew into an airdrome adjacent El Paso, Texas. Zambada’s lawyer says helium was tricked by Joaquín Guzmán López and forced against his volition to travel.
The USAO said the section cognition with ties to Sinaloa was moving retired of an autobody store successful Martinsburg, West Virginia. Drugs were coming from Puerto Rico done the U.S. Postal Service arsenic good arsenic from a root connected to the Sinaloa Cartel, the USAO said.
The pursuing were indicted:
- Saul Alexi Padilla-Garcia, 34, of Shepherdstown
- Juan Carlos Suarez-Lugo 55, of Martinsburg
- Victor Jose Canales, 45, whose hometown is unknown
- Alexis Alvarado, 37, of Ranson
- Mauricio Antonio Alvarado-Flores, 37, whose hometown is unknown
- Olvin Luis-Melendez Robles, property unknown, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;
- Mario Pellot-Acevedo, 58, of Martinsburg
- Eddi Heredia Cruz, 27, of Shepherdstown
- Jose Alberto Camarena Rocha, 30, of California
- Manuel Sanchez Gomez, 37, of California
- Angel Lopez, 43, of Fresno, California
- Sergio Rubio Pacheco, 33, of Fresno, California
- Moises Marrero, 39, of Ranson
- James Reyes, 54, of Martinsburg
- David Reyes, 60, whose hometown is unknown
- Charles Edward Branson, 53, of Martinsburg
- Danny William Mendez Delacruz, 41, of Martinsburg
- Yan Lionel Diaz-Cruz, 27, of Ranson
The USAO said that 15 of them were arrested connected Tuesday, but instrumentality enforcement is inactive looking for Gomez, Melendez-Robles and Diaz-Cruz.
In a antithetic case, the USAO said 7 radical are facing charges aft astir 40,000 fentanyl pills and 12 firearms were seized by investigators successful Berkeley County:
- Delano Alan Butler, 43, of Martinsburg
- Faith Elizabeth Small, 22, of Hagerstown, Maryland
- Jwan Martine Smith, 38, of Martinsburg
- Geraldine Lagata Hill, 43, of Stephens, Virginia
- Cody Aaron Ashby, 32, of Martinsburg
- Crystal Lyn Lewis, 34, of Martinsburg
- Matthew James Elsea, 42, of Martinsburg
Officers are inactive searching for Smith, but each different defendants were taken into custody, the USAO said.
Dozens of federal, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement agencies investigated the cases from California to Virginia.
