BREAKING: Federal agents arrest 14 on drug trafficking, money laundering charges
Federal and state law enforcement officers arrested 14 alleged members of the Orrantia Drug Trafficking Organization, including the alleged ringleader: Mario Armando Orrantia, 51, aka “Quezada.”
Those arrested include:
Carmen Marquez Castillo, 63 Angela Leon, 34 Humberto Aleman-Limas, 34 Eduardo Rubalcaba, 42 Hugo Arturo Faudoa, 51 Jerry Minsu Flowers, 45 Pedro Jimenez, 43 Erik Mendoza, 34 Rosalina Gallegos, 40 Bryan Ramirez-Guerrero, 22 Joshua Angel Talamantes, 27 Jerry Lewis, 64 Jose Reyes Valdez, 39
A federal indictment charges all of the defendants, with the exception of Ramirez-Guerrero and Gallegos, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
Orrantia, Marquez-Castillo, Jimenez, Lewis, and Talamantes are also charged with conspiracy to posses with intent to distribute marijuana.
