13 people connected to 3 drug rings arrested, 11 indicted in Seattle

SEATTLE Wash. (KPTV) – 13 folks related to a few drug trafficking teams had been arrested in Washington and California and 11 indicted for federal drug expenses, introduced U.S. Legal professional Nick Brown on Wednesday.

The U.S. Legal professional’s workplace in Seattle stated the three teams had been affordable for trafficking greater than 1,000 kilos of methamphetamine and a whole bunch of hundreds of fentanyl tablets.

These arrests adopted six arrests in September.

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“These people had been bringing giant a great deal of meth, heroin, fentanyl and cocaine from Mexico throughout the border and up I-5 to the Pacific Northwest,” Brown stated. “Even when an RV loaded with medication was pulled off the freeway and seized by regulation enforcement, they weren’t deterred. The wiretap revealed numerous organizations continued to recruit drivers and automobiles to move their medication all through our District.”

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The suspects arrested and indicted are:

• Jose Paleo, 29, of La Mirada, Calif.
• Octavio Guzman, 24, of Huntington Park, Calif.
• Glauco Guardado Rodriguez, 25, of Seattle
• Araceli Salas, 30, of Maywood, Calif.
• Maria Rangel Aguilar, 44, of Huntington Park, Calif.
• Miguel Thomas, 33, of Tukwila, Wash.
• Tad Fulton, 48, of Seattle
• Ryan Holmquist, 34, of Issaquah, Wash.
• Timothy Hursh, 38, of SeaTac, Wash.
• Ryan Terry, 44, of Duval, Wash.
• Abel Cruz, 32, of Des Moines, Wash.

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Police stated extra suspects had been arrested on legal complaints Tuesday:

• Luis Valenzuela-Haro, 32, of Seattle
• Michael Kinzel, 37, of Renton, Wash.

Additionally on Tuesday, police stated they seized greater than two kilos of fentanyl, 4 kilos of heroin, 10 kilos of methamphetamine and 67 firearms with high-capacity rifle magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two units of physique armor and one ballistic defend.

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