Tag: HSTF
Jose De Jesus Martinez, Fentanyl Distribution, Arizona 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jose De Jesus Martinez, a 25-year-old from Avondale, Arizona, was caught delivering approximately 150,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl near Phoenix on May 5, 2025. The bust was part of a Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) investigation, which led to Martinez’s arrest and the seizure of 13.3 kilograms of the deadly…
Leeladhar H. Tandel, Drug Trafficking, Alabama 2024
⏱ 2 min read Leeladhar H. Tandel, a 44-year-old from Mobile, Alabama, has pleaded guilty to his role in a massive international drug trafficking ring that sold pharmaceuticals like Tapentadol, Alprazolam, and Zolpidem to customers across the US. The ring operated from July 2024 to March 2025, using websites like MEDDZONLINE.COM and PHARMACYSTORESONLINE.com to take…
Steven Potter, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Nebraska 2026
⏱ 2 min read Steven Potter, a 54-year-old from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was involved in a large-scale methamphetamine conspiracy that supplied the Omaha and Council Bluffs areas with meth from a Mexico source. On March 7, 2024, law enforcement caught Potter with over 900 grams of methamphetamine after a traffic stop in Omaha. Potter admitted…
Antonio Pierre Ashmeade, Narcotics Trafficking, Georgia 2019
⏱ 3 min read In a brazen operation, members of the Paper Gang Family, an ostensible rap music label, were caught distributing large quantities of narcotics in the Atlanta area. The gang, which included Antonio Pierre Ashmeade, was busted by the Atlanta multi-agency Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) in 2019. The investigation revealed that the…
Jhon Dennis Guerrero-Trotman, Cocaine Trafficking, Puerto Rico 2026
⏱ 2 min read Four men – Jhon Dennis Guerrero-Trotman, Jaime José Marval-Gutiérrez, José Gregorio Pereira-Orfila, and Héctor Gregorio Jiménez-Herrera – were indicted on April 30, 2026, for their roles in a massive cocaine trafficking operation that brought over 1,350 kilograms of the illicit substance from Venezuela into Puerto Rico. The bust, which occurred on…
Yaidel Placido Salvador, Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy, Louisiana 2026
⏱ 2 min read A Cuban national with a taste for big-time cocaine smuggling got 10 years behind bars in New Orleans federal court. Yaidel Placido Salvador, 40, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute multiple kilograms of cocaine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. According to court documents, Salvador…
