An East Texas man is among 29 members of a cocaine trafficking and money laundering operation in which investigators netted $4.5 million in cash and more than 210 kilograms of cocaine, federal officials said.
Jonah Davidson, 30, is in federal custody. A press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Antonio says Davidson is from Tyler, but records from the Smith County Jail, where he was briefly detained this week, show a Longview address.
The 29 are named in a federal indictment released Wednesday, along with nine people who are not yet in custody.
The investigation centered on drug trafficking coordinated in Floresville and San Antonio, plus money laundering coordinated in Eagle Pass.
Investigators say the ringleaders are Jorge Armando Euresti, 27, of San Antonio; Sergio Javier Garza, 41, of Mexico; Yolanda Benavides, 59, of Eagle Pass; and Josefina Campos, 81, of Eagle Pass.
All four organized the transportation and delivery of drugs as well as the collection and return of money to people in Mexico, investigators said. The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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