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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Three residents from Tulare County are facing charges for their information successful cause trafficking and wealth laundering conspiracies successful Operation SLO Ride, the Department of Justice announced connected Thursday.
According to the DOJ, the archetypal indictment successful the lawsuit charged 28 individuals, but now, the summation of Tulare County residents, Manuel Diaz, Daniel Alvarado, and Rafael Alcala Jr. brings the full fig to 31 radical who are being charged.
In July 2023, investigators gathered grounds regarding individuals progressive successful the organisation of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and different narcotics successful Tulare County utilizing investigative tools that included confidential sources, surveillance, and wiretaps.
The cognition resulted successful the dismantling of a transgression enactment successful Tulare County. In March 2024, officials accidental instrumentality enforcement executed galore hunt and apprehension warrants successful a coordinated takedown. According to the DOJ, the 31 individuals present basal charged with assorted cause trafficking, wealth laundering, continuing transgression enterprise, and amerciable possession of firearms offenses.
The DOJ says that Diaz, Alcala, and Alvarado are each recently charged with conspiring to administer and person with the intent to administer methamphetamine and conspiring to perpetrate wealth laundering.
According to tribunal documents, Alvarado and Diaz arsenic good arsenic 4 others conspired to launder the proceeds of narcotics trafficking by transporting and transferring the proceeds from the United States to Mexico.
If convicted, the defendants look a scope of sentences from 10 years successful situation to beingness successful prison, and immoderate look mandatory minimum sentences of 5 and 10 years for cause trafficking offenses. Any sentence, however, would beryllium determined astatine the discretion of the tribunal aft information of immoderate applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which instrumentality into relationship a fig of variables.
