35 charged in SoCal drug smuggling ring

ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:56 p.m. October 8, 2008

SAN DIEGO – Federal indictments unsealed in San Diego charge 35 people with smuggling drugs to California from Mexico.
U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt said Wednesday that 19 of the 35 people indicted had been arrested. The others are at large.

During the 18-month investigation, authorities seized $10 million in cash, 1,500 pounds of cocaine, 1,600 pounds of marijuana and 371 pounds of methamphetamine.
Hewitt says the investigation focused on Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, Calif. She says the defendants worked for Mexico's notorious Sinaloa drug cartel

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