A Conyers woman who prosecutors say turned metro Atlanta homes into meth labs and cash-counting hubs is headed to federal prison for two decades, and she is not going alone. A judge on Wednesday sentenced 37-year-old Monica Dominguez Torres to 20 years behind bars after authorities said she ran a transnational methamphetamine conversion and money laundering operation that funneled millions back to Mexico.
Dominguez Torres was also ordered to forfeit roughly $1.7 million, four houses, a Cadillac Escalade and a firearm. Investigators say they seized nearly $3.6 million during the probe and arrested her at her Conyers home in February 2024.
As reported by Atlanta News First, the sentence includes five years of supervised release once she gets out and bakes in the asset forfeiture order. The outlet also notes that nine others were charged in connection with the scheme, and some of her relatives have already been sentenced in separate hearings. Prosecutors say the ruling is one more step in a sweeping federal investigation that stretched across the metro area.
How Prosecutors Say the Ring Worked
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Dominguez Torres led a crew that brought liquid methamphetamine in from Mexico, then converted it into hundreds of kilograms of crystal meth at multiple metro-area houses. Prosecutors say the group used regular residential addresses to receive and count bulk cash before sending the profits back to co-conspirators in Mexico through a mix of money transfers and old-fashioned bulk cash deliveries…