A federal grand jury returned an indictment including fees in opposition to the chief and a high-ranking member of a large-scale organized drug crime ring working in Alaska.
The U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for Alaska charged 53 individuals in reference to a drug trafficking ring in January.
Heraclio Sanchez-Rodriguez, 57, is the suspected chief of the transnational organized crime and drug trafficking ring focusing on Alaska and Tamara Bren, 41, is a high-ranking member often known as certainly one of Sanchez-Rodriguez’s “wives,” in keeping with a information launch.
The brand new fees accuse Bren and Sanchez-Rodriguez conspiring to launder cash by directing members of the enterprise to make use of cash transferring companies, like wire transfers, cellular functions and cash orders, to aim to launder over $1.3 million in drug proceeds between August 2022 to September 2023.
Courtroom paperwork additionally cost Sanchez-Rodriguez with allegedly altering and falsifying investigative experiences by the DEA, FBI, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service, to impede, impede and affect the investigation on Dec. 20, 2023.
Based on the superseding indictment, legislation enforcement has seized over 92 kilograms of fentanyl, 26 kilograms of meth, 11 kilograms of heroin and 110 grams of cocaine in connection to this enterprise.
