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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

32 Members and Associates of Norteños Gang in Utah Charged in Trafficking with the CJNG

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Charges Allege That Leaders Worked with Mexican Drug Cartel CJNG to Distribute More Than 400 Pounds of Methamphetamine, 50 Pounds of Heroin and Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Throughout the Salt Lake Valley

The grand jury issued a 27-defendant, 34-count indictment on Wednesday, charging twenty-seven individuals associated with the Nortenos gang for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin across the Wasatch Front. Previously, it returned five other indictments relating to this investigation and operation. The charges follow joint Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force operations conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Metro Narcotics Task Force (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Unified Police Department’s Metro Gang Unit (MGU), the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division (IRS), and the United States Marshals Service.

These charges are the result of an investigation beginning in September of 2020 in Utah. During the investigation, law enforcement demonstrated extensive cooperation across the Salt Lake Valley, as the DEA, ATF, Unified Police Department’s Metro Gang Unit, IRS, and the United States Marshals Service conducted a proactive investigation targeting drug and firearms trafficking activities of Salt Lake City gang members, specifically Norteños and their associates.

This operation follows a previous 38-defendant federal investigation and indictments of Norteños and their associates trafficking in methamphetamine and heroin with the Sinaloa Cartel in February 2019. It is interesting to see the gang shifted their supply source to the CJNG from Sinaloa after that bust.

During this new operation, law enforcement officers seized more than 42 pounds of methamphetamine, seven pounds of heroin, 5,000 fentanyl pills, 71 grams of fentanyl powder, 15 firearms, and more than $25,000. Using court-authorized investigative techniques, law enforcement learned that the primary narcotics supplier for this group was Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Investigators further estimate that the organization and its members are responsible for more than 420 pounds of methamphetamine and 50 pounds of heroin being transported to, and distributed in Salt Lake Valley during 2020 and 2021. Evidence gathered during the investigation demonstrates that the defendants were involved in transporting drugs from Mexico into the United States; moving the drugs to Salt Lake City; distributing the drugs to re-distributors who distributed the drugs throughout the community, and collecting and transporting drug proceeds back from Utah to Mexico.

Acting United States Attorney for the District of Utah Andrea T. Martinez announced the charges today along with DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jay Tinkler, ATF Resident Agent in Charge Michael Minichino, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera, U.S. Marshal for the District of Utah Matthew Harris, and IRS-Criminal Investigations Special Agent Stephen Washburn.

The grand jury previously returned five indictments for defendants relating to this operation. The largest indictment returned on Wednesday charges 27 individuals with 34 federal counts, including continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, conspiracy to launder money, along with several distribution and possession with intent to distribute narcotics charges, and several additional firearms charges. 

Norteños are gang members initially from Central and Northern California that are affiliated with and pay tribute to Nuestra Familia as opposed to the Mexican Mafia. Like the Surenos they have expanded beyond the prisons and streets of California. Gang investigators documented Utah’s first Norteño group in the mid-1980s, followed by several other sub-sets in the early 1990s. Unaligned or independent street gangs began associating under the Norteño umbrella in the early 2000s. 

According to the complaint, the Salt Lake Valley has approximately 10 active Norteño sub-sets, with approximately 100-150 active Norteño gang members. Norteños in the Salt Lake Valley have been responsible for drive-by shootings, aggravated assaults, robberies, and homicides, the complaint says.

Sources: DOJ DOJ

35 comments:

  1. From top grade to second and third hand supplies

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  2. Excellent 👍 catch we don't want Cjng in our backyard, report suspicious activity. Wait for when faces and names get shown. Sad day for cjng cheerleaders.

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    1. Unfortunately this is just fluff. They get replaced within a day or two and CJNG will continue to be in our backyard whether we like it or not. It's how it works until demand goes down.

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    2. This seems to be true as especially with this in 2019 dozens were busted with the source being Sinaloa, now dozens more with CJNG sources

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    3. 10:46 the only way to get rid of cartels is dont use theyr drugs, as long as theres demand there will be a supplier

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  3. I was at the Greyhound bus terminal in Salt Lake City. I had a few hours to kill so I went for a stroll to check out the city. I had never seen such a big open air drug market like I saw on Rio Grande St. There were Mexicans on every corner. Their mouths were so full of balloons they looked like chipmunks. People were smoking meth and shooting up on the street. It was insane. I've seen a lot of shit before but that place was the worst. And I figured because Salt Lake City was full of Mormons it would be really clean.

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  4. cjng in Salt Lake, hmmm ? any history to add ?

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    1. No new story, same story as always, every major city has cartel presence from every major cartel, and organized crime from other nationalities not just Mexican cartels. They are all making money out of illegal activities,

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  5. At least USA trying to convict these bad guys. Mexico arrest then release the next day.

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    1. But then again they get asked to cooperate, they end up snitching on each other and their conviction end up being a joke.

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  6. Orale some Nortenos going to the pokey.

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  7. I HATE agebra MY zoom TEACHER sucks, I MAY have TO go TO summer SCHOOL.
    SAY Sol YOU a GOOD tutor.
    JUST saying.......

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    1. Algebra is easy, I couldn't spell

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    2. Nino has tu cama, lava Los trastes

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    3. Just google the answers like everybody else. lol.

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    4. 10:11 he has too attend summer school, had he paid attention in his zoom classes and better yet English writing classes, he would be excelling. Don't give up theres still potienial.

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  8. We'll see who takes over next, they brought the cops this time like these mañosos did to CDS last time.

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  9. FYI article from USA Today about cartels using drones https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/02/mexican-drug-lords-use-drones-spread-terror/7506312002/

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  10. Keep making money for the child and innocent killing jaliscas cartel. How fucking stupid are any son of a bitch in the usa that does business the likes of the jaliscas or the cdn the most murderous terroristic organizations in mexico.

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    1. By you crying isn't going to change anything

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    2. Same stupid PEOPLE that work for CDS
      It's for the money and power but they end up with NOTHING

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    3. Stop cheerleading. All cartels are terroristic like you say. They all do horrible things they are all part of the problem. Jalisco might seem to do a lot of fucked up shit and they do, Sinaloa and CDN and CDG do as well just because Jalisco gets more attention. If you check it out, every time a cartel does something really messed up it's always a cell from out of state, Sinaloa doesn't do it in Culiacan, Jalisco doesn't do it in Guadalajara because obviously that's their home they have to respect the people in their city to have them on their side but outside of their states they all have cells that do all types of terroristic shit and all should be wiped out

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    4. Most Drug Pushers dont care what CJNG or any other group is doing as long as they get their product. The fact that you expect these guys to have some moral compass while they themselves poison kids in their own neighborhoods is honestly hilarious.

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    5. @2:35 Thing is, Jaliscas do a lot of fucked up shit in Jalisco.

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    6. @8:58am
      Facts
      I'm puro brown pride born &raised central Salt Lake City,I say build that freakn wall.

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  11. Send them back to Mexico

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    1. Biden is making ALMO look like the greatest Presidente in the history of the world. The liberals that run him want the USA to fail. Expect more drugs, homeless, bad economy, etc. In USA.

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    2. Well that's the point, that's what they do, that's the purpose of these raids. Drug dealers get caught, locked up and if any of them are not citizens they get deported.

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    3. Let them serve thier time in prison 8+12 cell, then deport them.

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  12. There was a guy in salt lake by the name of El Gordis. Controlled a bit of the market here and in Arizona. There’s a corrido called en Utah radicamos and was about him. Seemed like a good dude as far as when he wasn’t working. Died in Hidalgo about a year ago. Can say that at that time CJNG was not as prevalent as it is right now.

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  13. They all under control of the italian mafia

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  14. My brother in Yakima Wa says this is what they are seeing there. Outsiders in expensive SUVs watching over scumbags in red getting really pushy. Yakima is CDS territory since early mid 80s

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  15. Ought to be considered enemy combatants, terrorists invading our country, and double tapped.

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