FBI OPERATION RESTORE JUSTICE AND MORE

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Cases of the FBI podcast, were retired agents
share some of their most incredible cases. Let's begin. The
Department of Justice announced the results of Operation Restored Justice
and enforcement effort to identify, track, and arrest child sex predators.

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The operation resulted in the rescue of over one hundred
children and the arrest of two hundred and five offenders
in the nationwide crackdown. The Department of Justice, according to
Training General, will never stop fighting to protect child victims,
especially those arrested are alleged to have committed various crimes,
including the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material.

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In Minneapolis, for example, at straight tuper and an Army
reservist were arrested for allegedly producing child sexual abuse material
while wearing uniforms. In Norfolk, Virginia, an illegal alien from
Mexico's accused of transporting a minor across state line Thians
And in Washington, d C. A former Metro police officer
was arrested for also trafficking minor victims. In California, a

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man was arrested about eight hours which a young victim
bravely came forward and disclosed their abuse to FBI agents
after an online safety presentation at a school in New York.
Again an incredible operation as they arrested over two hundred
offenders and were able to rescue one hundred and fifteen children.

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In another case, three members of an international money laundering
organization were also charged with and this is a separate case.
The federal Grand Jury in South Carolina returned an indictment
on Tuesday against two individuals or three individuals that were
conspiring to launder millions of dollars of proceeds derived from

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drug trafficking. The defendants laundered tens of millions of dollars
in drug proceeds from the United States through China and
the Middle East, enabling a continuous flow of fetanol and
other dangerous drugs into our country from Mexico. Dismantling. I'm
trying to see what else was going on. Ula and Huang,

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those are the three last names the surnames of the
individuals allegedly worked for a money laundering organization and laundered
over thirty million dollars in proceeds related to the distribution
of illegal drugs cocaine and fetanol through Mexico. The co
conspirators allegedly traveled throughout the US to collect drug proceeds.
They communicated with co conspirators in China to arrange for
the laundering of these proceeds. Are transactions designed to conceal

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the illegal source of the proceeds, including disguising the source
of the drug proces proceeds by moving money through shipment
of electronic goods to China and the Middle East. So
another great case here solved by the FBI, at least
for right now. It's going to court, so we'll see
what happens there. Continuing on that theme, a San Antonio

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woman was sentenced in well in federal court for fifty months,
four years and two months in prison for conspiracy to
possess with an intent to distribute five kilograms or more
of cocaine. She was pulled over by Bexar County Sheriff's
Office on February for committing multiple traffic violations. In search
of her vehicle resulted in the discovery of one point
two kilos of cocaine located in the front passenger. Two

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cell phones were seized in the search. Rodriguez was arrested
in Federal church where and was executed in her residence,
where they discovered another two point three kilos of cocaine.
Agents also located over forty thousand dollars in cash, which
was determined to be proceeds from the drug trafficking. She
also admitted to trafficking at least five kilos of cocaine
per week during the first five or six months leading

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up to the arrest, So you can see the FBI
continuously trying to get the drugs off the street. Good job, everybody,