Twenty-five people were indicted on charges stemming from their alleged roles in a crystal methamphetamine, marijuana, and weapons pipeline to several South Jersey counties, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office announced. The pipeline allegedly ran from the Mexican state of Jalisco to the border town of McAllen, Texas, into Ohio and then to Camden and Atlantic Counties. The network allegedly shipped marijuana in packages through private couriers or the U.S. Postal Service to recipients in Camden, Voorhees, Lindenwold, Hammonton, Waterford, and Winslow.
The defendants are accused of bringing four to six pounds of crystal meth and more than 20 pounds of marijuana into New Jersey each week according to the Prosecutor’s Office. Three men – Hector Martinez, 28, of Camden; Joaquin Rangel-Cardenas, 24, of Sicklerville; and Alex Gonzalez, 29 – were indicted as the leaders of the trafficking network. Rangel-Cardenas and another suspect, Luis Lopez, 24, of Pine Hill, also face weapons-sales charges. The crystal meth was allegedly manufactured in Mexico, smuggled to Ohio, and driven by members of the network to distributors in Hammonton. Drugs were allegedly sold on streetcorners, in homes or in bars, or delivered directly to users.
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