{"id":119957,"date":"2021-02-06T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119957"},"modified":"2021-02-06T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T02:27:52","slug":"mexican-drug-traffickers-caught-attempting-to-smuggle-90m-worth-of-drugs-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-drug-traffickers-caught-attempting-to-smuggle-90m-worth-of-drugs-into-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican drug traffickers caught attempting to smuggle $90M worth of drugs into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexican-drug-traffickers-caught-attempting-to-smuggle-90m-worth-of-drugs-into-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2367497\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2367497\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2367497 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1153738128-696x437.jpg\" alt width=\"696\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2367497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A logo reading DEA Special Agent is pictured in the Office of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on May 29, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Johannes EISELE \/ AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 6:20 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, February 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Authorities took down two Mexican drug traffickers who attempted to smuggle more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/press-release\/file\/1365211\/download\">$90 million worth of illegal drugs<\/a> into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/05\/mexican-drug-traders-caught-smuggling-loot-of-narcotics-into-us\/\">reports<\/a>, U.S. prosecutors announced the arrests of Jose Gastelum-Torres and Alejandro Gastelum-Vega on Friday. The traffickers were taken into custody by the Mexican Navy after their boat was tracked moving through the Gulf of California.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdnylive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SDNYLIVE<\/a> JOSE LORETO GASTELUM\u2011TORRES &amp; FREDY ALEJANDRO GASTELUM\u2011VEGA are charged with conspiring to import 2.5 tons of meth and 100,000 fentanyl pills into the US after a Jan 29, seizure by Mexico\u2019s Navy of 2.5 tons of meth and 100,000 fentanyl pills in Sinaloa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p6Y8XLSFqf\">pic.twitter.com\/p6Y8XLSFqf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Inner City Press (@innercitypress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/innercitypress\/status\/1357829849440804868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The suspects were found with more than two tons of methamphetamine and 100,000 fentanyl pills they intended to bring into the U.S. If convicted, the men face 10 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/texas-rep-lee-under-fire-for-restrictive-gun-control-policies\/\">Texas Rep. Lee Under Fire For Restrictive Gun Control Policies<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A logo reading DEA Special Agent is pictured in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892806,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5124,3656,5642,3917,5648,5645],"class_list":["post-119957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-attempting","tag-caught","tag-drug","tag-mexican","tag-smuggle","tag-traffickers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}