Mexican Engineer Indicted in San Diego for Building Cross-Border Drug Tunnel for CJNG Cartel
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 29 that a federal grand jury in San Diego, San Diego County, California, returned an indictment charging Mexican engineer Luis Manuel Hernandez Victoria with designing and constructing a sophisticated cross-border subterranean drug tunnel for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), a Mexican syndicate designated by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization.
According to the indictment, Hernandez Victoria is also known as "El Ingeniero" (the Engineer). He is charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to construct or finance a cross-border tunnel; conspiracy to use a cross-border tunnel to import controlled substances; and conspiracy to import controlled substances.
The tunnel is alleged to be a subterranean cross-border passage used to bring controlled substances into the United States. The charges in the indictment are allegations, and the case will proceed in court.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：位于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈市的圣迭戈县行政中心。本案由圣迭戈联邦大陪审团提起起诉，司法部10月29日公布。照片：Adbar，Wikimedia Commons（CC BY-SA 3.0）。The San Diego County Administration Center in San Diego, California. A federal grand jury in San Diego returned the indictment, announced by the Justice Department on October 29. Photo by Adbar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
