Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
SAN DIEGO – A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Mexican engineer Luis Manuel Hernandez Victoria with designing and constructing a sophisticated cross-border subterranean drug tunnel for the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, a Mexican syndicate which the U.S. government has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The indictment charges Hernandez, also known as “El Ingeniero” (the Engineer), with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to construct or finance a cross-border tunnel; conspiracy to use a cross-border tunnel to import controlled substances; and conspiracy to import controlled substances.