Texas horse trainer jailed for 97 months over laundering conspiracy

A 50-year-old Texas-based Equus caballus trainer has been jailed for 97 months, followed past times iii years of supervised release, for his purpose inwards a complex conspiracy to wash millions of dollars inwards illicit Mexican drug-trafficking proceeds to purchase, train, breed, too race American quarter horses inwards the United States.

United States District Judge Sam Sparks imposed the judgement on Austin trainer Eusevio Maldonado Huitron.

Judge Sparks too sentenced co-defendant Raul Ramirez, 21, of El Paso, Texas, to i twelvemonth summation i twenty-four hr catamenia inwards federal prison theater afterwards pleading guilty prior to case to the conspiracy charge.

Other co-defendants who pleaded guilty to diverse federal charges prior to case received probation sentences today including: Zulema Trevino, 39 (3 years); Alexandra Garcia Trevino, 22, of Oceanside, California, (2 years); 33-year-old Equus caballus trainer Adan Farias of Norco, California, (3 years); too 29–year-old Felipe Alejandro Quintero of Los Alamitos, California (3 years).

Judge Sparks too ordered that Farias, Quintero too Ramirez each pay a $US3600 fine. Sentencing for 27-year-old Carlos Miguel Nayen Borbolla of Santa Anna, CA, was postponed.

The biggest sentences inwards the example had been handed downward past times Judge Sparks the twenty-four hr catamenia before.

United States Attorney Robert Pitman said the laundered cash at the middle of the transactions inwards the elaborate conspiracy came from the notorious Mexico-based Los Zetas cartel.

Evidence inwards the example showed that cash generated from the sale of illegal narcotics was diverted to the purchasing, training, breeding too racing of American quarter horses inwards the US inwards lodge to wash the money.

Testimony too revealed a trounce game involving straw purchasers too transactions worth millions of dollars inwards New Mexico, Oklahoma, California too Texas to disguise the root drug coin too brand the proceeds from the sale of quarter horses or their race winnings seem legitimate.

Furthermore, the defendants implemented a system to construction cash deposits inwards amounts nether $US10,000 inwards lodge to circumvent mandatory banking corporation reporting requirements.

Over 400 quarter horses, which were seized past times federal government inwards June 2012 equally business office of the laundering operation, accept been sold for roughly $9 million.

Pitman said the proceeds from the sale of the quarter horses were beingness held inwards escrow pending the resolution of a forfeiture action.

The Government too seeks the forfeiture of existent estatet inwards Lexington, Oklahoma; farm too ranch equipment located at that site; too funds contained inwards multiple banking corporation accounts allegedly used inwards the defendants’ scheme. The Government too seeks a monetary judgment for $US60 million, representing holding involved inwards too derived from the conspiracy.

 

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