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19th Member of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking Charges, and Co-Defendant Is Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
August 21, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, John C. Anderson, issued the following news release:

One of the 22 defendants charged with federal drug trafficking and international money laundering charges in a superseding indictment filed in Aug. 2017, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. One of his co-defendants entered a guilty plea, becoming the 19th defendant to plead guilty in the case.

Twenty-three defend . . .

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