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Smirking cartel suspect, 30, arrested with her father in $4.5M fentanyl sting after flying in from California to seal deadly deal in Florida
UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/25/2025 | Greg Woodfield

Posted on 06/25/2025 8:40:04 AM PDT by DFG

Smirking in defiance, a woman ‘member’ of Mexico’s fearsome Jalisco cartel poses for her mugshot after being seized in swoops in Florida that have netted 64lbs of fentanyl.

Suspected drug courier Alejandrina Diaz, 30, was arrested with seven other members of both the Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels who allegedly trafficked the killer drug into the US and across the country.

All eight were seized in Florida’s Polk County, Georgia and Arizona after six complex undercover sting operations in which detectives learned of shipments from unwitting members and played along before setting their traps.

Three other women ‘cartel members’ were among those arrested in the dramatic $4.5million busts, announced Tuesday by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.

‘Our detectives and our agents from the federal, the state and the local level potentially saved the lives of 14.5million people,’ he said at his office in Winter Haven.

‘We will continue to go after these criminals to reduced the flow of these deadly drugs into the United States and Florida.

’They came across the border in Mexico and ultimately to us.'

A total of 160,000 fentanyl pills and 13 kilograms (26.8lbs) of the powered form of the drug were seized.

Investigations resulting in the Sinaloa bust began in July, 2024 when the sheriff’s office's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force discovered counterfeit fentanyl pills disguised as blue Oxycodone in its area.

These had been trafficked from the Mexican state of Sonora, which borders Arizona, through to Phoenix and then on to Florida.

A plan was set and detectives were able to coordinate pill shipments to be sent to Polk County, the sheriff’s office has revealed, without giving further details.

The supplier sent six loads of fentanyl pills – approximately 17 pounds – up to January, 2025. These were all seized.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: US: Florida
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1 posted on 06/25/2025 8:40:04 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

You would think they would know to stay out of Graddy country!!


2 posted on 06/25/2025 8:42:20 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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To: DFG

Its like lesbians

They never look like how they are portrayed in the movies.


3 posted on 06/25/2025 8:46:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DFG

Make them Eat it


4 posted on 06/25/2025 8:47:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DFG

Death penalty for such trafficking is needed in the US. Too many lives are being lost.


5 posted on 06/25/2025 8:48:55 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: DFG

She won’t be smirking when she finds out who Sheriff Grady Judd is.


6 posted on 06/25/2025 8:49:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DFG
I would enthusiastically support a Federal law saying that anyone found with a specific amount of certain drugs....fentanyl,heroin,speed,meth,coke (and maybe others) would be legally deemed to be traffickers...even if they're not. And I would also support a Federal law mandating the death penalty for anyone violating that law.

Singapore does it...and you don't read about heroin ODs in Singapore.

7 posted on 06/25/2025 8:50:17 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Mouton
Wildly off-topic, but here’s a picture to go with your FR tagline.

Should you decide to share it, here’s the link:

https://morningmail.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sheriff_trump.jpg

8 posted on 06/25/2025 8:53:26 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I concur. Swift and sure justice. No repeat offenders.


9 posted on 06/25/2025 9:00:19 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: DFG

With that mug, she couldn’t sell sex.


10 posted on 06/25/2025 9:00:55 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DFG

Yikes, every one of these women has to sneak up on a glass of water.


11 posted on 06/25/2025 9:04:25 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: DFG

This is the way it should be done.

The Democrat’s (and so many from the GOP) fight against fentanyl was to take legal pain meds away from the veteran’s and older people who needed them and then declare success.

What the U.S. should have been doing all along was to stop the fentanyl and fake pills that have been flowing across the border for the last decade or more. But too many in our government make money from China’s illegal drug trafficking.


12 posted on 06/25/2025 9:05:32 AM PDT by CFW
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To: DFG

Find 2 tall trees
and 'decorate' them...



13 posted on 06/25/2025 9:06:02 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: TheDon

At the least accessory to attempted murder times the number of units that could be individually sold. So off to the gallows bitches


14 posted on 06/25/2025 9:06:30 AM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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To: Tudorfly
Yup...on my first trip to Singapore there was a sign in the hallway that led to the immigration/customs desk that said,in several languages,"Death Penalty To Drug Traffickers Under Singapore Law". I nearly soiled my underwear seeing that...I didn't have anything illegal on me.

Next to the sign way a big plastic trash can labeled "Amnesty Bin". I nearly tossed my blood pressure meds in it...just in case. But I didn't...and got through with no problem.

15 posted on 06/25/2025 9:13:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: DFG
Surprise! Now go after Hobbs for aiding and abetting.


16 posted on 06/25/2025 9:17:20 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: DFG

Wait till she gets her first bologna sandwich on dry bread.


17 posted on 06/25/2025 9:19:21 AM PDT by mware
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To: DFG

The drugs should be rammed up their backsides one pill at a time until they’re dead.

L


18 posted on 06/25/2025 9:21:17 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Supposedly we have the death penalty for drug “king pins”. I believe Bush the Elder signed it.

L


19 posted on 06/25/2025 9:22:20 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Leaning Right

Thanks!


20 posted on 06/25/2025 9:22:30 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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