GARLAND, Texas — A Homeland Security Task Force investigation has led to the arrest, conviction and sentencing of a cartel-affiliated drug trafficker located in North Texas, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
Described as being in the United States illegally, Nestor Molina Molina was residing in Garland while being investigated for importing methamphetamine from Mexico into Dallas and greater North Texas, said U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs in the release. Molina Molina, 37, was sentenced to over 11 years (140 months) in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant Wednesday in an Eastern District of Texas hearing in Sherman.
The investigation into Molina Molina, said to also be known as Chocoalte according to the Department of Justice, was an extension of a Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by an Executive Order called Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is described as a “whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad.”…