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ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities said Tuesday that they have
indicted the top two leaders of a Mexican drug trafficking
organization and are offering substantial rewards for
information leading to their capture.
Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga are
accused of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture cocaine,
heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl and importing and
distributing the drugs in the United States, authorities said
during a news conference in Atlanta. The newly unsealed
three-count indictment was returned by a grand jury in
September.
The two brothers are the leaders of La Nueva Familia Michoacana,
a Mexican organized crime group that was formally designated by
the U.S. government in February as a “foreign terrorist
organization," authorities said.
The State Department is offering up to $5 million for
information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Johnny
Hurtado Olascoaga and up to $3 million for information about
Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga. Both men are believed to be in
Mexico, officials said.
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