Mexican Charged with Conspiracy to Import Illegal Drugs into U.S.
The Justice Department has announced that on April 29, 2011, Alberto Arellano-Felix, an alleged leader of the multi-national drug trafficking Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), was extradited by the government of Mexico to the U.S. to face charges for conspiracy to import…
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and distribute cocaine and marijuana. The indictment alleges that the AFO leadership negotiated directly with Colombian cocaine trafficking organizations for the purchase of multi-ton shipments of cocaine, received those shipments in Mexico by sea and by air, and then arranged for the smuggling of the cocaine into the U.S. and its further distribution throughout the U.S. The proceeds of the AFO’s drug trafficking, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, were allegedly smuggled back into Mexico.