Homeland Security Task Force members from a variety of federal law enforcement agencies announced a major arrest in Puerto Rico taking down a large narcotrafficking network and criminal underground. [Press Release] According to the DOJ, 23 people were arrested with 14 potentially facing life in prison and death sentence eligible.
Charges range from RICO organization, money laundering, murder, drug crimes, racketeering and firearms violations. The joint task force effort took down a large network as noted in the press release. “The transnational criminal organization referred to as La Familia Nunca Muere (LFNM), composed of Las FARC (also known as Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cantera and Las FARC Company), Cantera Nueva Generación (CNG) and other gangs from the areas of San Juan, Bayamón, Comerío, Trujillo Alto and Carolina including its members and associates, constituted an “Enterprise,” as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 1961(4) (“the Enterprise”), that is, a group of individuals associated in fact, whose members functioned as a continuing unit for a common purpose of achieving the objectives of the Enterprise. The Enterprise was engaged in, and its activities affected interstate and foreign commerce.”
DOJ – SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On May 12, 2026, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 23 members of a racketeering enterprise known as La Familia Nunca Muere (LFNM) with racketeering—murder, drug trafficking, and firearms violations. This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion.
“This criminal Enterprise used gun violence and murder as mere business tools to maintain power and control. The filing of RICO charges gives us the capacity to systematically dismantle the violent gangs that fuel bloodshed and keep families living in fear,” said U.S. Attorney Muldrow. “These charges are a key part of our unified strategy to eradicate drug driven gang violence in our communities. Through RICO charges prosecutors can charge and bring to justice the entire criminal Enterprise as one organization—we can reach every participant from leadership to street level shooters and show a pattern of coordinated crime across gangs rather than isolated acts. It allows us to tell the full story of how different gangs coordinated murders, drug trafficking, and intimidation to advance a shared enterprise, instead of presenting each case as a stand-alone crime. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, together with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, will continue to aggressively pursue these gangs wherever they operate and will not relent until our neighborhoods are safe.”
“Violence of this magnitude will not become the norm in Puerto Rico, and the DEA, alongside our law enforcement partners, is committed to confronting it head-on,” said DEA Caribbean Division Special agent in Charge Michael Mayer. “This investigation targeted individuals who believed they could use murder and intimidation to strengthen their criminal organization and spread fear throughout our communities. What they encountered instead was a united effort by federal and local agencies working side by side, sharing intelligence, resources, and manpower to dismantle those responsible. This case represents far more than arrests and indictments, it represents our collective determination to protect the public, disrupt violent criminal networks, and restore safety to the communities affected by this violence.” (read more)
[2026 Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Directive]
Booyah!!!!
CIA pissed over loss of revenue stream.
No accounting for unrecorded revenues.
Hardest hit are money launderers.
You mean like the Clinton Health Initiative?
Out with the old swindle, in with the new scam.
Grifters don’t change their spots, they just look for the next mark.
Oh my friend, you are mistaken. Money ALWAYS leaves a trail.
Revenue can be “unrecorded” but the money that was unrecorded came from somewhere and then goes somewhere.
Keeping two sets of books trips up people. Things don’t quite add up under deep auditing.
Besides, the absence of certain details can be more conspicuous at times then not as in the case of the dog that did not bark.
Some countries, the ones that have the off shore bank accounts thrive on ILLEGAL money, so they won’t disclose to anyone what they are doing. Your point is true on regulated banks only.
Yep, and what a time for President Trump’s security to be ramped up big time. Prayers for his safety and the safety of his family and administration.
The revenue streams are slowly being dissolved and the cia plays for keeps…the USAID shutdown was a big deal. No doubt they are looking for more funding.
And the Democrat Party.
Agreed, but they have many, many such independent revenue streams.
Your comments are sometimes the funniest in the manner that you present them. As the great Rush Limbaugh periodically said, “the truest can sometimes be the funniest”. Your comment here, in my opinion, is about “as true as it gets”…and quite funny. The Trump administration is really whittling the CIA’s sources of income & yeah, the CIA is pissed. Regards to all, Former U. S. Naval Flight Officer
So now what will they do?
They won’t just sit there and do nothing.
This is what I’m wondering about- we’ve seen this show before.
This also isolates Cuba a little more.
Funny how many things started happening once Bondo Bondi was removed.
To be fair: these investigations take many months to years. Bondi was just the TV face of DOJ.
Not a good time to be a thug dealing drugs.
While that appears to be true; “Not a good time to be dealing dtugs”, maybe that moron Carney in Canada should pay attention. Those Canadian Fentanyl labs being supplied with Chinese chemicals, are still killing Americans in every US community with that poison.
and note the lines (we will do so in concert with local governments when they are willing and able to work with us.If they can not,or will not,we will still take whatever action is necessary to protect our country.especially if the government in question is complicit with the cartels).hmm sounds like he is putting some foreign countries on notice.
It would be a shame if a former South American dictator, ( currently in our custody),
got bored and started talking.
touching Canada, prevented anyone from seeing chemicals
shipped to and from Canada across those 4 great lakes a few years
back.
And…. about the smokescreen that was utilized to enable that.
Outlaw any motorized recreational boating on those 4 Canada adjacent
lakes under the guise of protecting citizens from Covid. Keeps the
citizens “healthy”, keeps the product flowing, undetected.
It’s also not a good time to be the one operating those oil tankers in Hormuz..
I happened to be thinking about what that must be like the other day.. it’s certainly not been any dull day at the office.
IMO Its only a matter of time before the gangs start to hit back on the streets of US cities. “If you make things tough for us, we will make them tough for you”. Thats how they do it south of the border, anyway.
There is no 2nd Amendment south of the border. But there is north of the border.
Boasberg stopping in 3….2….1….
Good…now do the “Obama La Familia”
Definitely a more sinister cartel…
I know we all want Lawfare perp walks but these are huge arrests that impact our nation bigly.
Thanks to all those that made it happen including the brave Puerto Ricans that sat on the grand jury and were willing to hand down indictments.
There might be a few other spillovers from this. Some Puerto Ricans might head back home if
they hear that it’s become safer from relatives. Some areas that are awash in Puerto Ricans that
are fond of being gang banger types might start having less $$$, more arrests. Say…. Orlando.
If so many Americans weren’t such fervent consumers of these drugs and everything else these gangs provide, they would be out of business.
You can never shut down the narco gangs as long as the insatiable demand is there. Same with child trafficking and sex trafficking.
It’s the demand that drives the business.
This is true but you can’t divorce that from the sense of hopelessness and displacement felt by so many young men who are told its bad to be men. Its bad to be white or Asian. Its bad to be straight. Jobs that traditionally were for young men just starting their careers and families were intentionally sent overseas. They see little hope for living the American dream.
This is not to absolve them. But neither is it an unintended consequence. It was absolutely intended.
100% disagree. Doing drugs is a choice, and not one forced on anyone regardless of their employment status or societal pressures. I’ve been saying the same thing for years: eliminate demand and suppliers go elsewhere. If you do drugs, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Agree.
True; but people who work have incentives to stay clean. People living on the public dole, are far more likely to be vulnerable to drug usage.
Can you explain that position with more depth? I don’t recall, as a young boy, my mom turning to meth when she was out of work and on food stamps. I’ve collected unemployment a half dozen times in my life and never once woke up and thought ‘today’s a great day to start doing blow!’ Not buying it, sorry.
We have a tremendous mental health crisis in this country.
Your brain needs to be functioning correctly to properly assess risk, to understand the danger, to sort out what is true and not true about the drug, about the impact of the choices, the full ramifications and consequences.
You need to be informed to make correct choices.
Many are not.
Many are not okay or capable of choosing right and many don’t even care to do such a thing.
When you are broken, you don’t function correctly.
I cannot for the life of me understand why people can’t figure this most basic thing out.
Broken people are broken- they don’t do anything right for the most part, they are broken.
Not all are broken. Imho sone start in school-middle or high school or even College. It is to fit in, be part of the crowd, etc.. others are already self-medicating.
And then they wind up broken- have you been following the psychosis that modern weed is causing in young people? with what were developing brains.
ruh, roh
do peptides count?
This would be true if we lived in an ideal, perfectly well functioning world where the doctors and Big Pharma weren’t working so hard to kill people.
You are both right at the same time, MANY of these drug related deaths over the past decades have been Deaths Of Despair.
You cannot drive a country where ours has been driven and then think that isn’t having a huge impact upon people that cannot cope with it all- OR that don’t have the skills, the support or anything at all there to help them cope with it all, not even any belief in God, nothing. THIS is a whole lot of people now..
Remember that it’s been about 4 generations now, at least -that have been failed in education.
Our medical system, insurance, it’s all been destroyed largely.
There is a lot to be hopeless about and it’s no new and recent development.
History says clearly that many self medicate to numb, heal or escape.
But the other side of this is that the lack of good, available and effective health care, pain management, this all drives desperate people in pain to self medicate too.
I don’t think that you understand that cheap heroin is more available, and more effective in some cases even then the treatment for your back injury -and many gave up on their foreign, or DEI doctor many years ago.
The family unit has been destroyed, the divorce rate is high, suicide rates are high.
Your position makes it appear that you’ve never suffered a day in your life.. many cannot overcome it.. obviously or we’d not be here.
Seems like a lot of excuses.
Whether or not I’ve ever suffered a day in my life is immaterial, not to mention a rather offensive comment. I simply declined to participate in doing drugs, simple. And when life has knocked me down, I didn’t turn to drugs as a coping mechanism. Yay me. I’m also not willing to entertain heroin as a cheaper/more available option than prescribed meds after a doctor visit. My point still stands: eliminate demand and supply goes elsewhere.
It’s wonderful that you personally have the fortitude to make perfect choices -but the scale of the problem that the country is enduring says that many people are not as well equipped as you personally are- to refuse to see that is part of the problem.
This is not excuses, it’s what I’m watching and living- it’s reality for millions of people all over the country.
We read miles here about how broken this country now is and yet you seem to think this all has zero impact upon peoples lives- must be nice in that bubble.
With an attitude such as yours- it’s quite easy to see why the demand is what it is.
The loss of HOPE
becomes despair.
(desperation)
Singapore deals with the supply side with a death penalty.
An example the USA should follow: but no more 30 and 40 year stays on Death Row!
If only more Americans had real jobs instead of welfare, SNAP, and Medicaid. People who earn their living have more self-esteem and are not as vulnerable to drugs.
There are few good jobs that pay well enough to buy a home and raise a family because we are intentionally a service economy. Male college grads end up owing money and working at Starbucks or a local restaurant.
If only we could have some of those manufacturing jobs back from China. Then we would have work for men that pays a living wage and gives some hope for a future. In addition a washing machine or a coffee maker might last for a few years and clean your clothes or make coffee.
“There are few good jobs that pay well enough to buy a home and raise a family” is just baloney. Example: 25 year old granddaughter applied and landed a job working for a auto mechanic when she was 19. She now owns her own home with her younger fiancé who works running heavy equipment and is expecting her first child. Combined they make double the max my wife and I had made at any one time. Many within my extended family have zero higher ed and have very good jobs within the trades that most definitely can support a home and family. What a person needs is the willingness and fortitude to make it happen.
All the jobs are going or already gone or replacements are being imported.
🚨There is hope. Please get the word out:
https://mikeroweworks.org/
https://www.accsc.org/student-center/mikeroweworks-foundations/
Easy for you to say
Yeah, tell that to the man that did physical labor for 40 years and now can’t even afford to use his medical insurance he’s robbed to pay for.
Agree to a point. However, remember that the easier the availability, the cheaper it is & the easier it is to get addicted. So removing the easy supply, drives up costs & makes it it harder to get started.
DoJ certainly putting wins on the board now that Pam Bondi is gone.
Democrats scream “RACISM” in 3, 2, 1, …..
Also, democrats search for extra cash to replace what they are losing in 3, 2, 1,……
Scream racism is pretty much all that Dems do. Scream about everything and conspire to overthrow this administration.
Dang, I keep wanting after DOJ takes down massive criminal ring to be followed by in DC.
SPENT a LOT Of TIME off Puerto Rico on ” The War on Drugs ” and Border Enforcement
LOTS of Resources SPENT ” LOOKING OUTWARDS ”
GLAD they FINALLY STARTED to CLEAN UP ” the Basement Door ” to the Lower 48
” Puerto Rico has the highest share of U.S. households on welfare at 47% “
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-households-on-welfare-by-state/
PUT The FULLTIME MILITARY BASES BACK in The unincorporated TERRITORY for Employment and ALLEGIANCES
( Besides DEA, CUSTOMS, COAST GUARD and the Puerto Rican National Guard Units )
ALSO – Bring Back Manufacturing –
https://www.biospace.com/business/as-amgen-and-lilly-recommit-puerto-rico-seeks-to-regain-manufacturing-momentum
Sending drug manufacturing to China and closing the factories helped the Communists but made slaves of the Chinese worker. The Puerto Ricans are left selling drinks to tourists and washing beach towels for a living.
I certainly hope the PR independence movement rapidly gains momentum. I’ve toured the whole island and it’s only a bit better than Mexico. Very sad.
my Understanding of the Situation IS that the ” independence movement ” ENJOYS THE PERKS of FREELY MOVING AROUND The UNITED STATES; BUT ALSO enjoys the fact it’s a unincorporated Territory
THE PERKS WITHOUT the obligations of BEING INDEPENDENT and FINANCIALLY SOVEREIGN
an UNITED STATES PASSPORT and MONEY is the way The Majority STILL Feels
The sooner we dump that United States-hating hole, the better. The only thing they like about the U.S. is the money we send down there for the welfare system. The United States would be MUCH better off if Puerto Rico was independent and we then broke diplomatic relations with them, banning all travel between the two countries.
All Puerto Rico does is drain U.S. coffers. They contribute absolutely nothing to the nation and are proud of it. That has been patently obvious since they denied the Navy the use of Vieques as a firing range.
CUT THEM LOOSE!!!
Funny how this never happened under the prior administration, nor the prior AG, for that matter.
Very good!
“Homeland Security Task Force members from a variety of federal law enforcement agencies announced a major arrest in Puerto Rico taking down a large narcotrafficking network and criminal underground.”
“Charges range from RICO organization, money laundering, murder, drug crimes, racketeering and firearms violations.”
Any chance one or more of those arrested might decide to cooperate with investigators in exchange for a new identity? It would be nice if this led to the taking down of the kingpins in Mexico and the US, be they private citizens or government employees.
Three Mexicans turned themselves in to ‘authorities’ in at least two different states just recently.
Good news.
I hope they focus on reservations next.
Politicians never solve issues, businessmen do.
POST. OF THE DAY!
More evidence that Puerto Rico should be its own country. It is a financial wasteland that has never shown any reason it should be an American territory.
Puerto Rico should never become a US State!
Or is it because it’s run like any other major blue city that has been driven right down the drain- to make the population so desperate they vote for more Big Democrat Government thinking that is going to solve their problems.
All others before President Trump, concerning the war on drugs, were all talk and may have been profiting from the game of war on drugs!
More Democrats.
Thank God.
No more $$$$ to the terrorists and the $$$$they fund the deep state.
Wow
💥🇺🇸🦅✝️
Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders.
Nice! Kinda seemed like a silent/slow Monday early on, glad to know PDJT didn’t take the day off or call an “Early Lid”. haha
Can’t wait to see what Tuesday brings!
Looks like Hillary Clintoon still has her clutches on the Puerto Rico!
Thank You!
Money money money: Pink Floyd seems appropriate:
Hopefully, evidence of PR administrative “mismanagement” of past hurricane/FEMA relief funds and supplies will be found and addressed, also.
This is what I voted for.
These drugs are a weapon.
This has been and is the Opium Wars all over again- launched upon us this time- and we’ve got a few here that try to say that China is not our enemy. Count up the dead people we’ve had from drugs and take note of the fact that they are largely young people- and white, by the way.
The vast majority of fentanyl deaths are white males 24 to 40. They are targeted by other demographics bragging about getting away with mass murder of the precived cause of all their problems.
Waiting….waiting for AOC’s comments on cleaning out the den of thieves of her ancestry…waiting…
Busting gangs and blowing up drug running boats is serving justice. But as long as there is a market there will be supply from somewhere. We have to address the high demand for drugs from Americans and the astronomical profits beimg made before we can stop the flow of poison to our children.
Can we charge parts of the US government with RICO for their efforts to persecute Americans & the POTUS? Asking for a friend.
So THAT’S why the Democrats want to turn Puerto Rico into the 51st state!
Dems love any place where fraud, waste, vice, money laundering and every other crime are allowed to run rampant. It gives them so many opportunities to indulge in all their favorite pastimes.