
SEATTLE - Federal authorities announced the indictment of 15 people drug-trafficking charges, claiming they brought them from Mexico and distributed them in Minnesota. The alleged leader of the operation was included in the group.
Clinton James Ward, a 45-year-old Minnesota native, was charged with more than a dozen drug offenses as well as engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise under what is known as the "drug kingpin statute," Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said.