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Two drug traffickers linked to the Sinaloa Cartel and the Beltrán Leyva will be extradited to the United States to go to the courts where they are wanted, since between 2002 and 2016 they coordinated several shipments of cocaine and methamphetamine to that country.
According to official judicial documentation, Rodolfo “L” and Alberto David “R” are in the process of being extradited to the neighboring country to the north. In both cases, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) had already granted the extraditions, but because the defendants' respective defenses responded with amparos, which were denied to them last February, they had not been able to materialize.
Rodolfo, who according to U.S. agents collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel and later with the Beltrán Leyva, reportedly participated between 2002 and 2003 in sending several shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, and then to the United States, by sea and land.
The indictment against Rodolfo, before the District Court based in Columbia, was filed for the crime of criminal association to distribute 5 kilos or more of cocaine. Since December 30, 2016, he has been held in the federal prison of Villa Aldama, in the state of Veracruz.
During the years in which it operated, from January 2003 to December 2016, Rodolfo and his partners invested in shipments of cocaine that were transported from Colombia, through Mexico, and whose final destination was the United States. The tours were carried out through a fleet of tankers, so as not to arouse suspicion, that they drove from Central America.
“They were transported to airports in Guatemala, from there overland to Mexico for final distribution in the US. We participated in approximately 12 or 13 shipments on planes during 2002 and 2003 ″,” said one member of the organization who pleaded guilty.
The same witness pointed out that in 2003 the criminal organization received three shipments of cocaine in Mexico on a coast of the Atlantic Sea. Drugs were taken out of Colombia by sea, along the Atlantic coast to Central America or Cancun, and from there it was transported by land in tankers.
US agents learned of a meeting that was agreed between 2005 and 2006, and in which Rodolfo received between $180,000 and 280,000 dollars to buy tankers with a capacity to hold up to 1,600 kilos. Both to benefit the Sinaloa Cartel or the Beltrán Leyva, Rodolfo operated through close cooperation arrangements with South American suppliers.
One of those involved in the transfer network gave the US authorities an accounting book with some documented transactions. The book recorded cocaine purchases they made in Culiacán between February 16 and November 15, 2006, and detailed purchases of more than $6 million in less than a year.
Alberto David “R”, the other detainee in the process of extradition, is accused of being responsible for importing large quantities of methamphetamines into the United States for distribution, as well as sending large amounts of money back to Mexico from the sale of drugs.
It is known that it operated in Sinaloa and that its busiest years were between 2005 and 2014. He is currently being held in the prison “El Castillo” in Mazatlan. The arrest warrant for the purpose of extradition against him was executed on 20 February 2016.
It is required by the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California, in a proceeding filed on July 25, 2014.
Alberto oversaw the distribution and sales of a considerable amount of methamphetamine and made arrangements for the drugs to be brought into the United States by couriers. He also coordinated logistics to store drugs in safe houses and then transport them to the organization's distributors and customers in various parts of California and elsewhere in the US.
Authorities identified several methamphetamine seizures and drug trafficking profits linked to this group, including a seizure of USD 397,210 in May 2014 and a seizure of 10 kilos of methamphetamine on September 26, 2013.
On May 6, 2014, an undercover agent met with one of the group's members in Detroit, Michigan. The criminal gave the agent USD 150,000 to take them to Mexico, and the next day authorities seized USD 100,000 in a hotel room.
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