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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="mol-ads-label-container"><span class="mol-ads-label">Mother</span></span>-of-two, 25, was the &#8216;CEO&#8217; of a huge Minnesota meth smuggling gang which worked in partnership with Mexican cartels &#8211; prosecutors<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Macrina Perez accused of working with Mexican drug lords to </span><strong><span style="color: #000000;">move wholesale amounts of meth to the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area</span></strong></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Investigators tracking the cell for three years, identified Perez by tracing her to a haul of 140 pounds of meth seized at a Brooklyn Center stash house in May 2016</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Perez, a Mexican-American, was c</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;">harged shortly after but her indictment was kept secret to protect informer<strong>s</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Travel documents bearing Perez&#8217;s name were found in the house, which was operated by local drug dealer Nicholas Nelson and a couple Dolores Ludmilla Castillo and Francisco Silvestre</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ludmilla Castillo and Silvestre, who are both in prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Perez, working alongside her husband, organized vehicles to drop off 30-to-50 pound shipments at the house in an operation the DEA described as &#8216;very complex&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Twin cities &#8216;Narco Queen&#8217; fled to Mexico in 2014 after being questioned by cops over the NY meth shipment bust</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Agents arrested Perez in April, 2018 during a trip back into the US &#8211; while in a shop picking up supplies for her family</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-292856" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Macrina-Perez-1.jpg" alt="Macrina Perez 1" width="585" height="753" /><br />
<strong>Minneapolis/St Paul &#8216;Narco Queen&#8217; Macrina Perez in an undated mug shot<br />
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<p class="imageCaption">Macrina Perez worked with brutal Mexican drug lords to move wholesale amounts of meth to the Twin Cities metro area, according to prosecutors. She is seen above in an undated mug shot</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A mother-of-two, 25, has been accused of serving as &#8216;CEO&#8217; of one of the biggest meth trafficking operations Minnesota has ever seen with its roots stretching across the border to cartels in Mexico.<br />
Macrina Perez worked with Mexican drug lords to move wholesale amounts of meth to the Twin Cities metro area, according to prosecutors who charged her nearly two years ago but kept the indictment sealed to protect informers.<br />
Investigators have been tracing the cell for three years, and identified Perez by tracing her to a haul of 140 pounds of meth seized at a Brooklyn Center stash house in May 2016, reported the <a class="class" href="http://www.startribune.com/prosecutors-say-young-mom-is-ceo-of-one-of-minnesota-s-biggest-meth-trafficking-cells/482233642/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Star Tribune</a>.<br />
Travel documents bearing Perez&#8217;s name were found in the house, which was operated by local drug dealer Nicholas Nelson and a couple &#8211; Dolores Ludmilla Castillo and Francisco Silvestre &#8211; who are now all in prison after pleading guilty.</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-292861" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dolores-Ludmila-Castillo-and-Francisco-Silvestre-Martinez-1.jpg" alt="Dolores Ludmila Castillo and Francisco Silvestre-Martinez 1.JPG" width="675" height="443" />Dolores Ludmila Castillo, 41, [left], helped operate a stash house in Brooklyn Center where agents discovered 140 pounds of meth in 2016. She was sentenced to more than 5 years in federal prison and sent to West Virginia. Francisco Silvestre-Martinez, 29,[right], lived with Castillo and was also arrested after authorities raided their house. In a separate trial, he was recently sentenced to more than 5 years in prison.</h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Agents also covered $130,000 in cash at the house and a gun that Perez, a Mexican-American, is said to have supplied Nelson to protect the stash.<br />
Perez, working alongside her husband, organized vehicles to drop off 30 &#8211; to 50-pound shipments at the house in an operation the DEA called &#8216;very complex&#8217;.<br />
She left for Mexico in 2014 after being questioned by cops over an alleged meth shipment to a hotel, before being arrested in April this year during a trip back into the US where she was picking up supplies for her family at a shop.<br />
Assistant US Attorney David Steinkamp called Perez the &#8216;CEO of the organization&#8217; and emphasized her links to organized crime in Mexico during her first court appearance this month.<br />
&#8216;Ms. Perez is as connected to Mexican drug cartels based on this evidence as anyone I have ever prosecuted, and it&#8217;s somewhat remarkable,&#8217; he said.</p>
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<strong>Crystal meth seized in NY was traced back to Perez&#8217;s organization</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">Investigators have been tracing the cell for three years, and identified Perez by tracing her to a haul of 140 pounds of meth seized at a Brooklyn Center stash house in May 2016</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Steinkamp is urging a judge to reject pleas from the defense to allow Perez to await her trial at home under GPS monitoring .<br />
&#8216;I submit to you that we will never see her again if you release her, even to a halfway house,&#8217; he said.<br />
Defense attorney Gary Wolf insisted Perez did not pose a flight risk and was intent on &#8216;fighting the case out&#8217;.</p>
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Minnesota Mother-of-two, Macrina Perez, 25, was the ‘CEO’ of huge meth smuggling gang which worked in partnership with Mexican cartels
