Drug Trafficking Organization Operative Sentenced for Money Laundering and Drug Trafficking
Peruvian citizen Hilario Renato Mendoza Beltran was sentenced to 87 months in prison for conspiring to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaine and launder money for an international cocaine trafficking group. Beltran pleaded guilty to working as a Peru-based operative…
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of the organization by transporting over $472,000 of the group's money and arranging the delivery of around 140 kilograms of cocaine to other operatives in Peru, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York said in a June 4 news release. The delivered drugs were shipped to Guatemala and Mexico and then smuggled into the U.S. According to the release, between 2014 and 2016, the Montreal-based operation collected the proceeds in Montreal from selling marijuana and cocaine in the U.S. and Canada, then used that money to purchase cocaine from various suppliers. The cocaine was then smuggled back to Canada and the U.S.