Agents: Drug cash used to buy luxury home, drive-thru beer barn
by Sergio Chapa

Posted: 03.26.2014 at 8:09 PM


Mayra Cantu Gonzalez

Authorities have been following the paper trail left behind by a Donna woman.

They now believe she may have bought her home and started two businesses using profits from drug trafficking.

Agents with the Hidalgo County HIDTA Task Force arrested Mayra Cantu Gonzalez on money laundering charges late last week.

Court records released to Action 4 News on Wednesday reveal a laundry list of allegations.

Investigators believe that the 35-year-old woman and her ex-husband were associated with a drug trafficking organization.

But agents claim she used her share of the money to buy a $112,000 home on Juanita Street just north of Donna.

Investigators believe she ran an unlicensed and illegal permanent make-up business out of her home.
They also believe that she planned to open a drive-through convenience store off FM 495 and Val Verde Road.

Authorities are going after all her assets and have even filed to seized the two properties.

Records show Gonzalez only reported an income of $2,000 dollars to the IRS on her income tax return.
But HIDTA agents claim she made multiple cash deposits in the bank with the total in cash more than $200,000 dollars.
Gonzalez is out on a $10,000 bond.

Court records show that she is fighting the forfeitures and allegations but her attorney Rafael De La Garza III could not immediately be reached for comment.

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