The cartels’ fight to gain control has offered new fodder for Ohio Republican candidates running for U.S. Senate, who have scrambled to echo the platform of former President Trump and claim the need for a completed wall at the Mexican border.
They use low-level couriers to haul large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine here. They also utilize financial conduits to launder the proceeds and local distributors to dole out their products, records and interviews show.
That, they say, will keep out the drugs. Bryce Pardo, the associate director of the Drug Policy Research Center at the Rand Corp., said few traffickers attempt to enter by other means. In July 2020, the DEA arrested a money launderer and accused her of collecting nearly $200,000 in drug proceeds from Cleveland and shipping it to a Mexican bank. Federal records show an informant believed that the conduit had ties to the Jalisco cartel.The forces that poison Cleveland and the region thrive thousands of miles away. Their bases of power, once located on the west coast of Mexico, have spread across the country’s 31 states and Mexico City.
Its chief competitor, the Jalisco New Generation, has emerged as one of the fastest growing cartels in Mexico, according to DEA reports, as it has manufactured and distributed methamphetamine and fentanyl and exported cocaine and heroin. Formerly known as Los Mata Zetas, it has used violent attacks on police and its rivals in Mexico to expand.
From there, trucks use the main arteries into Ohio, including the state’s turnpike, which is a primary route for traffickers, according to a Justice Department report.
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