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Three U.S. citizens, one Mexican indicted for drug conspiracy, money laundering

A Federal Grand Jury in the Northern District of Oklahoma has indicted two Oklahoma residents and a Mexican national on multiple charges.

The four charged are:

* 34-year-old Ricardo Plateado-Martinez of Broken Arrow, Okla.;
* 35-year-old Rosa Maria Olmos of Broken Arrow, Okla.;
* 31-year-old Rafael Gonzalez of Beaumont, Tex. and;
* 40-year-old Joel Rosales Pina, a Mexican national. 

All four are charged with drug conspiracy; conspiracy to commit international money laundering; maintaining a drug-involved premises and conspiracy to import a controlled substance (third superseding).

Plateado-Martinez, Olmos,  Gonzales and Pina are charged with conspiring to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine.

Plateado-Martinez, Olmos, Gonzalez, and Pina are charged with conspiring to move money internationally with the intent to promote methamphetamine distribution and the conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Pina is further charged with maintaining a residence to distribute drugs.

Gonzalez, and Pina are charged with conspiring to import more than 500 grams of methamphetamine from Mexico.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Dallas Field Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Tulsa Police Department, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, Broken Arrow Police Department, and Oklahoma City Police Department are the investigative agencies.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David A. Nasar is prosecuting the case.

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