The U.S. is providing an $8 million reward for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of two brothers accused of operating a “brutal Mexican cartel” that has been “poisoning Individuals” with fentanyl and different illicit medicine trafficked throughout the border.
Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, the co-leaders of the La Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM), had been charged by a federal grand jury in Georgia on Tuesday, with conspiracy to fabricate and distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl figuring out these managed substances could be imported into the USA, amongst different counts, in accordance with the Justice Division. Each fugitives are believed to be in Mexico.
“President Trump has promised to crack down on the stream of lethal medicine into our nation,” F. Cartwright Weiland, a Senior Bureau Official within the State Division’s Bureau of Worldwide Narcotics and Legislation Enforcement Affairs, mentioned in a press release.
“Working with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Safety Investigations, the Division of State is delivering on that promise by providing rewards totaling as much as $8 million for data resulting in the arrest and/or conviction of the Hurtado brothers,” he added.
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Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga, left, and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, proper, are the co-leaders of the La Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM) cartel, in accordance with the State Division. (State Division)
The DEA, in accordance with the State Division, estimates that LNFM “is chargeable for the transportation, importation, and distribution of over 36 metric tons of methamphetamine, 12 metric tons of Mexican heroin, and 12 metric tons of cocaine per 12 months from Mexico into the USA.”
The cartel was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Division on Feb. 20.
“LNFM is a drug trafficking group based within the Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan that has trafficked fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine to the USA, and that has laundered the proceeds of those illicit medicine via the U.S. monetary system,” the Treasury Division mentioned.
“Along with poisoning Individuals, the group has engaged in acts of terror and violence inside Mexico. As an example, LNFM has utilized drones to drop bombs on its rivals, with utter disregard for Mexico’s civilian inhabitants. Additionally they terrorize native communities via kidnappings, killings, and extortion,” it continued.
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Pictures of Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, who’re accused of collaborating in a conspiracy to fabricate cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl and conspiracy to import and distribute the medicine in the USA, are displayed throughout a information convention on Tuesday, April 15, in Atlanta. (AP/Brynn Anderson)
A reward of as much as $5 million is being supplied by the State Division for the seize of Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga, whereas a $3 million determine is being supplied for the detainment of Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga.
The indictments in opposition to the brothers had been returned in September 2024 and had been not too long ago unsealed, in accordance with the Justice Division.
“As well as… the U.S. Division of the Treasury’s Workplace of International Property Management (OFAC) introduced new sanctions in opposition to Johnny and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga and their siblings, LNFM members Ubaldo Hurtado Olascoaga and Adita Hurtado Olascoaga,” the company additionally mentioned.
An $8 million reward is being supplied for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga (AP/Brynn Anderson)
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“The indictment of senior leaders of this brutal Mexican cartel and subsequent OFAC sanctions makes one factor clear, we’re coming after these prison networks and using each weapon in our arsenal,” mentioned Particular Agent in Cost Steven N. Schrank of Homeland Safety Investigations in Georgia and Alabama.
