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Former Mexican State Attorney General Pleads Guilty to International Narcotics Distribution Conspiracy@drawandstrike @catesduane @rising_serpent @almostjingo @tracybeanz @TheChiIIum @Quodverum_ @headsnipe01 @thomaswictorhttps://t.co/8wdiZ36AKb— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
Defendant Used His Position as a Law Enforcement Official to Facilitate International Drug Trafficking into the United States— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Edgar Veytia, the former Attorney General for the State of Nayarit, Mexico, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon to one count of international conspiracy to manufacture and distribute heroin,— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 963, 960(b)(1)(A), 960(b)(1)(B)(ii), 960(b)(1)(G), 960(b)(1)(H) and 959(d),— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
for his involvement in a 2013 to 2017 scheme to import illegal drugs from Mexico into the United States. When sentenced, Veytia faces up to life in prison.— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), Brian Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Ray Donovan,— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
Special Agent-in-Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division (DEA), David J. Downing, Special Agent-in-Charge, Los Angeles Division (DEA), Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent-in-Charge,— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
Homeland Security Investigation, New York (HSI), and Matt DeSarno, Special Agent-in- Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. Field Office (FBI), announced the guilty plea.— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 4, 2019
The case was investigated by the DEA, FBI and HSI as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF). The OCDETF program is a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and...— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
state agencies involved in the identification, investigation and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply.— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
Veytia pleaded guilty to Count One of the Indictment, charging him with an international drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States.— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
According to court filings and facts presented during the plea proceeding, from January 2013 until February 2017, Veytia used his official position as State Attorney General to assist and abet drug trafficking organizations operating in...— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
the Mexican State of Nayarit in exchange for bribes. Veytia, who was responsible for Mexican state law enforcement authorities charged with investigating crime in Nayarit, used his official position to protect drug trafficking activities related to distribution into and...— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
within the United States and obstructed legitimate investigations and prosecutions of drug trafficking members in Mexico, for example by preventing the arrest of drug traffickers or unlawfully releasing those who had been arrested by Mexican law enforcement authorities.— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
The government’s case is being handled by Assistant United States Attorneys Craig Hereen, Ryan Harris, Alicia Washington and Temidayo Aganga-Williams of the EDNY, together with Deputy Chief of Litigation Amanda Liskamm and...— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
Trial Attorneys Jason Ruiz and Anthony Aminoff of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
The Defendant:
Edgar Veytia
Age: 48
EDNY Docket No. 17-CR-115 (CBA)— Headsnipe01 (@Headsnipe011) January 5, 2019
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