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. i United States District Goad
A0 91 (Rev. 08/09) Criminal Complaint Southern aistE?DQt Of Texas 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JAN 302813
for the 

Southern District of Texas mm Bradley, Clerk

United States of America . -

v. - 
Jorge ignaCIo CAVAZOS 3= .1 0 0 
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Defendant(s)

- CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

 

 

 

On or about the date(s) of 2016 through January 2018 in the county of Hidaigo in the
Southern District of Texas the defendant(s) violated:
Code Section - . O?ense Description I
21 USC 846 Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaine.

This criminal complaint is based on these facts:

See Attachment 

Continued on the attached sheet.

2 .. . Complain?signamre

ISldl?O MartInez, HSI SpeCIai Agent
Printed name and title

Ave/e 

Sworn to before me and signed in- my piece"

   

 

Date: 1l30I?2018 $35, a w. .

 

Judge ?5 signature

I City and state: McAiien, Texas - U. S. Magistrate Peter 

Printed name and title

Case 7:18-mj-00203 Document 1 Filed in TXSD on 01/30/18 Page 2 of 2

Attachment A 

On July 20, 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI) in McAllen, Texas received information from the U.S.
Customs andBorder Protection, Office of Fields Operations at the
Pharr, Texas Port of Entry (POE) regarding a vehicle loaded with narcotics that
they encountered. On that date, a Mexican national had attempted to enter the
United States from the United Mexican States with approximately 11.06 kilograms

. of Cocaine concealed in a non?factory compartment located in a black Nissan
Altima.

In November 2017, HSI Special Agents received information from a Cooperating
Defendant (CD) regarding the aforementioned seizure of narcotics. The CD stated 
that the aforementioned vehicle was utilized on severa?l'occasions to transport
narcotics into the United States at the direction of a drug trafficking organization
(DTO) Operating in Reynosa, Tamaulipas Mexico. The DTO requested that after
the vehicle successfully entered the United States it needed to be turned over to
a male subject in the United-States. The CD later positively identified the
recipient of the narcotics as Jorge Ignacio CAVAZOS. The CD further stated that
CAVAZOS picked up the vehicle on several occasions. The CD recalled that on'July
19, 2017 CAVAZOS had traveled to a Walmart in the McA?lIen, Texas area in a
black pickup truck to pick up the black Nissan Altima loaded with narcotics.

On January 29, 2018, CAVAZOS was interviewed by Homeland Security
Investigations (HSI) Special Agents. During a post-Miranda interview, CAVAZOS
stated that he has been assistinga DTO in furtherance of narcotics transactions
since 2016. CAVAZOS admitted that the DTO sent vehicles loaded with narcotics 7
on a weekly basis. CAVAZOS admitted one. of those vehicles was the black Nissan
Altima. CAVAZOS stated he. was responsible for receiving the vehicle in the
United States and extracting packages of seVeral kilograms of cocaine and
sometimes other narcotics from hidden compartments within the vehicle.