Quote:Luis Briseño first came to the attention of federal law enforcement in June 2010 when he was arrested driving across from Juárez into El Paso with his mother, Martina Lopez de Briseño.

They were stopped and searched at the border crossing by Customs Border Protection officers who found that mom had six kilograms of cocaine strapped around her waist.

Both were indicted as part of much larger smuggling organization, headed by Hortencia Lozano de Beltran, who had more than 20 people moving drugs across the border into El Paso, then into Albuquerque and other cities like Atlanta.

Lozano de Beltran admitted that she was the middle link in a chain of drug distribution, primarily cocaine and marijuana, for three suppliers in Ciudad Juárez, identified in court filings only as “Jimmy,” “Pete,” and “Vero.”

She operated out of El Paso, but received delivery instructions from the suppliers in Ciudad Juárez. She would then ensure that the drugs from the suppliers were delivered to dealers in various cities in the United States.

While Lozano de Beltran said she was only a transporter with employees, she said Martina Lopez de Briseño was directly employed by Mexican narcotics suppliers “Jimmy” and “Pete” to deliver drugs to Lozano de Beltran and others.

Both Briseño and his mother admitted making numerous trips into El Paso and delivering five kilograms of cocaine during each border crossing in the months before their arrests in 2010. But they didn’t identify who they were working for in any court filings.

In other words, they didn’t give anything up.

Briseño was sentenced to four years and 10 months, and his mother was sentenced to seven years in federal prison.

Both were ordered deported immediately at the completion of their prison terms.

https://www.abqjournal.com/1006491/drug-...r-mom.html

I assume they did the drug deliveries before going to the grocery store.