US Edition'La Chayo' Charged with Arming Jalisco Cartel with Grenades
- Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, a 39-year-old Mexican, was charged on May 4, 2025, with providing material support to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Texas.
- The charges follow the Trump administration's designation of CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization under a January 20, 2025 executive order targeting international cartels.
- Navarro-Sanchez allegedly conspired to smuggle grenades, firearms, narcotics, cash, and migrants for CJNG, a powerful transnational criminal group operating across Mexico and beyond.
- Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons emphasized that providing grenades to a terrorist group involved in the illegal trade of guns, drugs, and people constitutes more than just a criminal offense.
- The indictment represents the first under the new material support terrorism charges and signals the Justice Department's commitment to prosecuting cartel-related threats.
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DOJ’s First Terrorism Designation Hits Mexican Cartel
The Justice Department just charged Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez. Her crime? Supplying grenades to CJNG (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación). It’s the first use of the new terrorism designation against a cartel member. President Trump’s February order finally labeled CJNG and seven other cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This indictment marks a major shift in how cartel violence is prosecuted. Play time is over. CBS News reports: …
The US indicts a Mexican citizen on terrorism charges for helping cartel
U.S. prosecutors say a Mexican citizen will face charges related to providing material support to a terrorist organization for the first time for allegedly conspiring to traffic guns, grenades, drugs and migrants for a drug cartel.
US Unseals First Indictment Against Mexican National for Supporting Terrorist Organization
Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a further stepping up U.S. pressure on cartels and days after U.S. authorities announced the first formal narcoterrorism charges against members of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Justice Department announced Friday the first indictment against a Mexican national for allegedly collaborating with a terrorist organization. The defendant is María del Rosario Navarro-Sánchez, 39, arrested this month in Jalisco, Mexico,…
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