United States Drug Enforcement Administration

CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has charged 36 individuals with crimes related to narcotics and money laundering conspiracies in an indictment that was unsealed today.

 

Those charged include 22 local individuals. Law enforcement agents arrested all 36 defendants late last week and over the weekend.

 

According to the indictment, beginning in March 2016 and continuing through October 2019, the defendants conspired to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and cocaine.

 

The indictment alleges two Cincinnati businesses were used to launder proceeds from the narcotics conspiracy: Tri-State Jeweler on Race Street and Nationwide Automotive on Vine Street. It is alleged that cash was kept stored at both locations. The cash was then allegedly concealed and packaged to be transported to and from the Cincinnati region.

 

According to the 15-count indictment, between December 2018 and April 2019, defendants stored, at least temporarily, approximately $2.5 million at Tri-State Jeweler.

 

For example, Tri-State Jeweler accepted $1,400 in cash for the purchase of a diamond pendant necklace in May 2019, $15,000 for the purchase of a diamond ring in June 2019 and $4,000 for the purchase of a diamond ring in July 2019. Also in July 2019, Nationwide Automotive accepted $38,800 in alleged narcotics proceeds for the purchase of a vehicle. It is alleged at least $800,000 was laundered at Nationwide Automotive between November 2018 and April 2019. Co-conspirators are also charged with maintaining drug premises on Prosser and Glenmore avenues in Cincinnati.

 

DEA seized more than half a million dollars in cash, 19 pounds of fentanyl, three pounds of heroin, 100 pounds of cocaine, 42 pounds of methamphetamine, 47 weapons, 12 vehicles, the jewelry store inventory, assorted jewelry belonging to defendants and residences valued at approximately $1.1 million total thus far in this case.

 

Those charged include:

Name	Age	City
Jose Daniel Hernandez, aka Jesus Bojorquez, aka Dany	40	Wisconsin
Derrick Bryant	39	Cincinnati
Daniel Simons	45	Hamilton
William F. Graham, III	52	Cincinnati
Carlos Flores-Inzunza	31	Sinaloa, Mexico
Jose Toquillas-Felix	32	Cincinnati
Lashone Isom	42	Cincinnati
Maurice Jackson	50	Hamilton
Daniel Montez Blaine	50	Cincinnati
Francisco Casique	24	California
Raymond James Edwards, Jr.	53	Cincinnati
Christopher Engle	48	Cincinnati
Radee Garrett	39	Cincinnati
Carl Rena Gilbert	60	Cincinnati
Cardale A. Goens	32	Cincinnati
Ayman Anis Al Hajjeh	27	Wisconsin
Xingui Lin	39	Chicago
Frances Alexia Mercado	24	Atlanta
Kymyatta Oatis	50	Cincinnati
Ernesto Rincon	24	Wisconsin
Andre Robinson	37	Cincinnati
Joel Salcedo	23	Las Vegas
Robert Smith	60	Cincinnati
Christopher William Talley	36	Cincinnati
Donald Thompson	41	Cincinnati
Vilma Vidal-Flores	47	Las Vegas
Harold Lamar Walker	41	Cincinnati
Stefan Walker	42	Cincinnati
Min Wang	32	Chicago
Nicholas White	41	Cincinnati
Brandon Terrell Willis	43	Cincinnati
Maurice Ringwood	45	Cincinnati
Ivan Courtney Johnson	39	Cincinnati
Vyacheslav Minyalo, aka Slavik	46	Cincinnati
Dewayne Lamont Walker	47	Cincinnati
Yosi Ilouz	42	Mason

 

 

The narcotics conspiracy in this case is punishable by a mandatory minimum 10 years up to life in prison. The money laundering conspiracy is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Congress sets the minimum and maximum statutory sentence. Sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the Court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.

 

David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Keith Martin, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); and Bryant Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Criminal Investigations, announced the charges. Criminal Chief Karl P. Kadon and OCDETF Chief Christy L. Muncy are representing the United States in this case.

 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), United States Marshals Service, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted in arrests.

 

Members of the DEA’s Task Force include: Cincinnati, Golf Manor, West Chester, Norwood, Montgomery, Colerain, Springfield Township, Delhi Township, Harrison, Kenton County, Covington, Florence and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport police departments, Hamilton County and Boone County sheriff’s offices, the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), Ohio National Guard, Butler County Undercover Regional Narcotics Task Force, Ohio State Highway Patrol and Kentucky State Police.

 

An indictment merely contains allegations, and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.