EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A New Mexico lady has been sentenced to jail for her position in a drug trafficking and worldwide cash laundering conspiracy.
Rosa De Santiago, 48, of Sunland Park, New Mexico, pleaded responsible on July 16, 2018, to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, conspiracy to commit worldwide cash laundering, and possession of methamphetamine and heroin with intent to distribute, in accordance with a information launch from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace.
She is one in all 22 defendants charged in a 44-count indictment that resulted from a 16-month Drug Enforcement Administration investigation right into a Mexican drug trafficking group that imported massive portions of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico and distributed the medicine in New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois.
In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by KTSM 9 Information, De Santiago knowingly mixed, conspired, agreed and acted independently with different defendants and different individuals to launder cash internationally and, on varied events, deliberately possessed with intent to distribute a managed substance.
The costs towards De Santiago originated from the Albuquerque space. On Nov. 22, 2016, De Santiago and others allegedly have been in possession of fifty grams of methamphetamine and greater than a kilogram of a substance containing a detectable quantity of heroin.
On Jan. 19, 2017, De Santiago and others have been in possession of greater than a kilogram of a substance containing a detectable quantity of heroin.
On Feb. 1, 2017, De Santiago and different defendants “did knowingly and deliberately transport, transmit, and switch and did try to move, transmit, and switch” money tied to drug gross sales exterior of the U.S.
On Feb. 18, 2017, De Santiago and different defendants have been in possession of greater than a kilogram of a substance containing a detectable quantity of heroin.
De Santiago was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Thursday. Upon her launch from jail, she will likely be topic to 5 years of supervised launch.
In keeping with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace, De Santiago is the final defendant within the indictment in custody to be sentenced. One defendant stays a fugitive.
Part of the investigation into this drug trafficking group, regulation enforcement authorities seized roughly 30 kilograms of heroin, 64 kilograms of methamphetamine, 17 kilograms of cocaine, 20 kilograms of marijuana, 24 firearms, $102,000 in foreign money, and three automobiles.
