The Department of Justice (DOJ) on May 16 indicted a Mexican national for allegedly providing material support to a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, the first indictment of its kind in the United States.
Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, 39, was accused of supplying grenades to the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico’s powerful transnational criminal organizations, according to the DOJ.
Navarro-Sanchez was charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States, straw purchasing and trafficking firearms, and possessing drugs with intent to distribute.
Her two co-defendants, Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez and Gustavo Castro-Medina, both Mexican nationals, also faced firearm trafficking charges, according to the department….