Federal authorities arrested five individuals in Norcross early Tuesday morning for allegedly laundering over $1 million into Jalisco New Generation — a Mexican drug cartel that’s been designated as a foreign terrorist organization under the Trump administration.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was expected to visit Atlanta to announce the arrests and “major developments” in a separate federal investigation, but canceled the night before.
Michael Herskowitz, chief of the Narcotics Section at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Atlanta, alleges law enforcement observed traffickers delivering drug proceeds to a middleman for two months last year, who then transferred the cash to a mother and daughter to launder using a licensed money service business in Norcross called “Pulga La Esperanza.”
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