Several of the men federal authorities say were involved in a Mexico-based drug trafficking and money-laundering organization with ties to Atlanta and Houston lived in an apartment in Smyrna.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Wednesday that prosecutors in Atlanta charged six people in a federal complaint filed Monday, Feb. 16. Prosecutors say Nemias Cintora-Gonzalez was a local cocaine and methamphetamine supplier for the organization. Cintora-Gonzalez is accused of working with Jorge Armando-Reyes, Israel Edgardo Rivera-Pacheco, Victor Hugo Morales-Avila, Edgar Cintora-Gonzalez and Brenda Perez.
Authorities seized more than a dozen guns, ammunition, a bulletproof vest, counterfeit money and drugs from the Smyrna apartment where several of the men lived.
Mike Smith, Smyrna police public information officer, identified the apartment complex as Walton Grove, 2550 Cumberland Boulevard Southeast. He said Smyrna police were not involved in the investigation.
Mexico government sought to withhold drug war death statistics - Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-mexico-dead-numbers-20120112,0,721894.story#.Tz3L-etw2XM.email
The title of this article is "Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta". Note the world suburban. http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-19/justice/atlanta.drug.cartels_1_mexican-drug-cartels-drug-dealers?_s=PM:CRIME
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | BILL TORPY When U.S. law enforcement officials last month busted a Mexican drug cartel moving tons of dope and millions of dollars, they announced it in Atlanta. The distribution ring stretched from Colombia to New York to Italy, but the operation’s key hub was Atlanta. Long a commerce and transportation center for giants like UPS and Delta Air Lines, Atlanta tags itself as an “international city.” This time, it embodied that definition in an illicit way. Federal drug agent Jack Killorin calls Atlanta “the new Southwest border.” Mexican distribution rings supply about 90 percent of the cocaine, 80 percent of the methamphetamine and half of the marijuana used in the United States, estimates Rodney G. Benson, the agent in charge of the DEA Administration office in Atlanta. A huge proportion of the payload headed for the Atlantic seaboard, the Southeast and the Midwest flows through Atlanta’s interstates, a federal report said this year. The transformation of narcotics trafficking to the Mexican networks started shifting in the 1990s. Experts say it’s a combination of population shifts, supply chain improvements, product development, criminal outsourcing, even the NAFTA. “If you put a starting date [on the Mexican involvement], it’s the explosion in the Latin community since the [1996 Atlanta] Olympics,” he said.
The stupid people you speak of Mike H are the ones who do not understand how dangerous these "hard working" Mexicans are. I am thinking you have never been hit by one of these invaders - no licence, no insurance - your problem.