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Federal Felony Drug Charges Filed After Massive Drug Trafficking Ring Uncovered

By Conaway and Strickler

DMV Employee and Nine Others Indicted on Charges of Marijuana Trafficking and Corruption On December 2, 2008, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unsealed an indictment of federal drug crime charges against 10 men and women involved in a massive inter-state conspiracy to distribute and sell marijuana illegally. The defendant, most of whom lived in Fresno, California, had (according to the indictment) concocted an elaborate scheme to export more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana throughout the United States. One of the defendants under indictment, Michelle Meraz, worked for the California Department of Motor Vehicles and used her position as a government official to concoct a false ID by using a stolen identity and a picture of fellow-conspirator Haamid Alie Darcuiel...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on December 31, 2008 (boomark / email).