Violent Mexican drug gang's high ranking members sanctioned by Trump

The Trump administration sanctioned 2 high-ranking members of the Cartel del Noreste Wednesday — 1 of the astir convulsive drug-trafficking organizations successful Mexico and a U.S.-designated foreign violent organization, Fox News Digital has learned. 

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 2 leaders of the organizations, formerly known arsenic Los Zetas. Officials said the pack exerts "significant power implicit the border region," particularly adjacent the Laredo, Texas constituent of entry. 

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The archetypal idiosyncratic sanctioned was Miguel Angel de Anda Ledzema, a high-ranking subordinate of Cartel del Noreste who oversees the procurement of guns and ammunition for the group. According to the Treasury Department, helium has overseen payments to facilitators and straw purchasers successful the United States and organized the transportation of firearms to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico — straw purchasers who made mendacious representations to unafraid firearms from American businesses, who officials accidental "fell unfortunate to the cartel's lies." 

The Treasury Department, led by Secretary Scott Bessent, said that 1 of the weapons purchased successful this arms trafficking conspiracy was recovered aft Cartel del Noreste attacked Mexico’s service during a patrol successful March 2024.  (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Treasury Department said that 1 of the weapons purchased successful this arms trafficking conspiracy was recovered aft Cartel del Noreste attacked Mexico’s service during a patrol successful March 2024. 

The 2nd idiosyncratic sanctioned was Ricardo Gonzalez Sauceda, who was known arsenic the second-in-command of Cartel del Noreste earlier his February apprehension by Mexican authorities. 

The Treasury Department said helium led an equipped enforcement helping of the organization. He had been arrested successful transportation with attacks connected the Mexican subject and Mexican police. 

At the clip of his arrest, helium was successful possession of a rifle, a handgun, 300 grams of methamphetamine and a bundle of 1,500 fentanyl pills. 

Officials said the caller sanctions underscore the Trump administration’s committedness to targeting Cartel del Noreste and different convulsive cartels progressive successful cause trafficking, quality trafficking, arms trafficking and different heinous crimes endangering the American people. 

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"In moving toward the full elimination of cartels to Make America Safe Again, the Trump Administration volition clasp these terrorists accountable for their transgression activities and abhorrent acts of violence," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday. Cartel del Noreste "and its leaders person carried retired a convulsive run of intimidation, kidnapping, and terrorism, threatening communities connected some sides of our confederate border." 

Bessent added, "We volition proceed to chopped disconnected the cartels’ quality to get the drugs, money, and guns that alteration their convulsive activities." 

The caller sanctions were imposed successful coordination with Homeland Security Investigations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration. 

Officials said the enactment was besides intimately coordinated with Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit. 

President of the National Border Patrol Council Paul Perez told Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump’s actions against cartels "fulfills the committedness that helium made erstwhile helium stated clip and clip again that helium would not let the cartels to run with impunity connected our borders oregon wrong the interior of the United States." 

"These actions woody a important stroke and serves to nonstop the connection to each cartels, arsenic good arsenic to those who privation to bash harm to Americans, that President Trump volition not conscionable speech astir it, helium volition travel through," Perez said. "The magnitude of drugs, weapons and different contraband, to see the smuggling and trafficking of persons into and passim the United States, created chaos and panic that the actions of the Trump medication is bringing to an end." 

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"We afloat and without hesitation enactment the actions taken by President Trump and his medication to instrumentality connected the cartels," Perez added. 

The actions travel aft Trump directed cartels to beryllium designated arsenic overseas violent organizations. 

In April, the Justice Department deed a high-ranking subordinate of Tren de Aragua connected coercion and planetary cause organisation charges — the archetypal clip the U.S. authorities has utilized coercion charges to prosecute a subordinate of the convulsive gang.