LOS ANGELES -- Federal authorities said 31 people faced drug charges in a crackdown Thursday targeting a large-scale ring that funneled methamphetamine from Mexico to California and Washington using fake vehicle batteries.
The suspected ringleader, Jesus Marquez-Marquez, was believed to be in the Mexican state of Michoacan and has not yet been arrested, authorities said.
Marquez-Marquez, also known as Don Chuy, allegedly ran the drug ring that stored the drug in Tijuana before it was moved across the U.S.-Mexico border via hidden compartments and bogus car batteries.
Marquez-Marquez is accused in a federal complaint of having a number of distribution cells in California's Central Valley, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and in Washington.
The ring is believed to have brought more than 200 pounds of meth into Southern California each month.
About 90 pounds of meth worth more than $5 million was seized Thursday as well as 8 kilograms of cocaine. Ten people were arrested, and others were being sought.
Two Othello men are named in the indictment but have not yet been arrested: David Silva Benavides, also known as "Prieto," 28, who led a Don Chuy distribution cell in Washington, and Jose Luis Mata-Garcia, who is in his late 30s.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/04/02/961682/31-face-charges-in-meth-ring-bust.html
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bout time they catch someone bringing that crap into the valley! lock up him up and never let him out that drug has destroyed the valley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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