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(NewsNation) — Two brothers who national authorities accidental are the co-leaders of a Mexican cause cartel person been charged with national cause charges, and a reward of up to $8 cardinal is being offered for accusation starring to their apprehension and conviction.
Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga were charged by a national expansive assemblage with conspiracy to manufacture and administer cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl. The 2 brothers were besides charged with conspiracy to import the drugs into the United States and conspiracy to administer controlled substances, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The 2 siblings are the co-leaders of the La Nueva Familia Michoacana cause cartel, national officials said. Both of the siblings are fugitives aft indictments were handed down successful September 2024 and were precocious unsealed.
The 2 brothers are believed to beryllium surviving successful Mexico. In summation to the charges announced Tuesday, the 2 brothers and their siblings, Ubaldo Hurtado Olascoaga and Adita Hurtado Olascoaga, who are some members of UNFM, according to Justice Department officials, were deed with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
The UNFM was designated arsenic a overseas violent enactment successful February. In summation to cause trafficking, justness section officials accidental that the cartel has engaged successful extortion, kidnappings and murders, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The reward of up to $5 cardinal and $3 million, respectively, was offered by the State Department for accusation starring to the apprehension and condemnation of Johnny and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga.
In addition, a 3rd man, Franco Tabares Martinez — a high-ranking subordinate of LNFM — was charged by a national expansive assemblage with conspiracy to person methamphetamine with the intent to administer and with related transgression charges of cause smuggling.
“Today’s indictments and OFAC sanctions against high-ranking LNFM cartel members sends a wide message: if you lend to the decease of Americans by peddling poison into our communities, we volition enactment relentlessly to find you and bring you to justice,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said successful a connection released by the justness department.
The probe into the LNFM cartel began successful 2021 erstwhile national agents began looking into the importing of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl into the United States. As portion of the investigation, agents identified Franco Tabares Martinez arsenic a then-high-ranking subordinate of the LNFM cartel who allegedly distributed multi-kilogram quantities of methamphetamine successful the metro Atlanta area.
Agents antecedently identified Franco Tabares Martinez’s sister, Guadalupe Tabares Martinez, arsenic an Atlanta wealth launderer allegedly helping her member and different cause traffickers by picking up bulk currency and past utilizing her wealth work concern to transmit those cause proceeds to cause trafficking associates successful Mexico.
Tabares Martinez pleaded blameworthy successful January to conspiracy to person methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, portion his sister has since been charged with conspiracy to perpetrate planetary wealth laundering and conspiracy to run an unlicensed wealth services business.
