Using piñata and clothing stores in the US, cartels keep sending millions in drug proceeds to Mexico

Using piñata and clothing stores in the US, cartels keep sending millions in drug proceeds to Mexico

All leads followed by the narcotics agents pointed to a store whose display window was usually filled with mannequins, bicycles and BBQ grills. The shop was located in Norcross, a suburb north of Atlanta, Georgia. Posters for remittance companies hung in the windows of Pulga La Esperanza, and these were the focus of a fentanyl-trafficking network linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Every member of the criminal cell questioned by …