Tag: Homeland Security Task Force
Oscar Ruiz-Oliva, Hiring Unauthorized Aliens, Missouri 2023
⏱ 2 min read Oscar Ruiz-Oliva and Jorge Manuel Oliva-Paguada, two Honduran immigrants, were indicted in St. Louis for hiring at least 10 illegal aliens. The indictment, handed down on Wednesday, accuses the pair of knowingly and intentionally engaging in a pattern of hiring unauthorized aliens. Ruiz-Oliva, 41, and Oliva-Paguada, 37, were also charged with…
Houston Cartel Leaders, Conspiracy, Texas 2022
⏱ 2 min read A Houston-based cartel was dismantled in 2021 when federal agents caught wind of a massive methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking scheme spanning multiple states. Prosecutors say Salvador Abraham Gomez, aka ‘Chop and Chief,’ was the mastermind behind the operation, which brought in at least 7,805 grams of methamphetamine and 4,900 grams of…
Alijaha Scott, Fentanyl Trafficking, Arizona 2022
⏱ 3 min read A 25-year-old Ohio man is facing the music for his role in a deadly fentanyl pill trafficking conspiracy that funneled poison from Arizona to the Youngstown area. Alijaha Scott pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges, admitting to shipping fentanyl pills from Arizona to Ohio between April 2022 and 2024. According…
Romaro Lanarie Foster Sr., Cocaine Trafficking, Pennsylvania 2022
⏱ 2 min read A massive cocaine operation in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been dismantled after a 6-month investigation. Romaro Lanarie Foster Sr., 47, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. federal authorities began investigating Foster and his crew in March 2022, after a source in California started…
Eder Montoya-Rosales, Nazario De Jesus Del Campo Perez, Fentanyl Trafficking, Utah 2026
⏱ 2 min read A massive fentanyl pill haul has landed two Mexican nationals in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors in Utah. Eder Montoya-Rosales, aka Jesus Tadeo Gonzalez Estrada, and Nazario De Jesus Del Campo Perez were charged with fentanyl trafficking after agents seized nearly 100,000 fentanyl pills in a Homeland Security Task Force operation.…
Nixon Manuel Marino-Carreño, Cocaine Importation, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 3 min read A notorious cocaine trafficker from Colombia has been brought to justice in Puerto Rico, accused of smuggling the deadly drug into the US for years. Nixon Manuel Marino-Carreño was extradited from Colombia on April 17, 2026, after being arrested on March 10, 2025, at the request of US authorities. According to…
Alexis Donnell, Fentanyl Trafficking, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read A New Castle woman is going down for two-and-a-half years for pushing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Western PA. Alexis Donnell, 30, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the deadly drugs between August 2023 and August 2024. According to court records, Donnell was part of a Detroit-based trafficking ring that sold…
Rose Lee Beranek, Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Iowa 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 44-year-old Cedar Rapids woman is heading to the slammer for 12 years after getting caught with nearly two pounds of methamphetamine in her car. Rose Lee Beranek was driving from Arizona to Iowa in February 2024 when she was pulled over by law enforcement in Oklahoma. A search of her…
Lorenzo Blackwell, Drug Trafficking, South Carolina 2023
⏱ 2 min read Six people, including a 65-year-old, were busted in a massive drug trafficking ring in Sumter and Lee County, South Carolina. According to the indictment, Lorenzo Blackwell, 27, Marquis Quintell Durant, 38, Marcus Martenez McConico, 37, Kalvin Clay Singletary, 36, Perry Sherrod Taft, 65, and Nikennia Fatese Carter, 34, were trafficking massive…
Israel Sanchez Arciga, Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Meth, Texas 2023
⏱ 2 min read A 48-year-old Mexican national living in the US illegally has been slammed with 27 years in federal prison for his role in a massive methamphetamine trafficking operation in Texas. Israel Sanchez Arciga, a notorious smuggler, was part of a crew that imported liquid meth from Mexico, cooked it in Texas labs,…
