<p>An illegal alien captured at Colony Ridge, the Texas development that’s systematically attracted illegal aliens, is believed to be connected to a violent Mexican drug cartel, The Daily Wire has learned.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) told The Daily Wire that at least one of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-illegal-aliens-arrested-after-344-pounds-of-meth-found-in-colony-ridge">three illegal aliens</a> caught and deported earlier this month in a traffic stop is believed to have ties to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a violent criminal organization that traffics drugs and people across the southern border and into the United States.</p>
<p>The entity is <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels/">now classified</a> as a Foreign Terror Organization due to an executive order from President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>The bust of those three illegal aliens resulted in the seizure of 344 pounds of meth that one of the illegal aliens, Cruz Isidro Sandoval, was keeping in a trailer on his Colony Ridge property just north of Houston. The DEA spokeswoman did not specify which of the three illegal aliens is suspected to be tied to the cartel.</p>
<p>The revelation further confirms The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">reporting</a> that Colony Ridge has become a magnet for illegal aliens, including those operating on behalf of the cartels. It also confirms the suspicion of Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. When asked if it would be possible for an illegal alien to obtain and traffic nearly 350 pounds of meth without ties to the cartels, Bensman responded with a simple and resounding “nope.”</p>
<p>Known in Mexico as Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), the Department of Justice has <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-treasury-and-state-departments-announce-coordinated-enforcement-efforts-against">referred</a> to the criminal entity as “one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico” and “one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world.”</p>
<p>The CJNG, the State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels/">says</a>, has launched “attacks on Mexican military and police with military grade weaponry, the use of drones to drop explosives on Mexican law enforcement, and assassinations or attempted assassinations of Mexican officials.</p>
<p>The cartel profits off a number of different criminal enterprises, including the trafficking of drugs like meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl into the United States. The arrest of the three illegal aliens came just before the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety launched a joint operation targeting the illegal aliens inside the Colony Ridge development.</p>
<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1894485344923652152">reported</a> that 118 illegal aliens had been captured in Monday’s operation, noting that Colony Ridge is “known for its cartel activity and illegal alien population.”</p>
<p>“Charges and convictions of those arrested include criminal sexual conduct, homicide, theft, negligent manslaughter, child sexual abuse, crimes of moral turpitude, weapons offenses and drug offenses,” ICE went on to note.</p>
<p>Among those captured was an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/previously-deported-ms-13-member-leads-authorities-on-manhunt-in-colony-ridge">MS-13 member</a> and El Salvadoran national who had been deported on seven different occasions. The illegal alien is believed to have fatally stabbed a man before leading authorities on a seven-hour manhunt that resulted in his arrest.</p>
<p>Authorities also arrested 39-year-old Florentin Chevez-Luna, another El Salvadoran national who had been deported three times. An ICE spokesman told The Daily Wire that he “was arrested by ICE and Texas DPS pursuant to a criminal arrest warrant for alleged repeated sexual abuse of a minor over an eight-year period from November 2008 to November 2016.”</p>

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