Earlier this week, federal prosecutors in San Diego filed the first-ever narco-terrorism charges against senior leaders of the Beltrán Leyva Organization, as part of an effort to dismantle transnational criminal networks that generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually by producing fentanyl.
The case is the first brought by the Justice Department's newly launched Narco-Terrorism Unit in Southern California and falls under Operation Take Back America — a broader initiative involving ICE, the FBI and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) to combat Mexican drug cartels.
