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Federal investigators arrested a woman who works as a paralegal specialist in the U.S. Attorney's Office for helping or giving tips to a Mexican Cartel, according to a recently published article.

Drug smuggling, sex trafficking, and other illegal businesses of Mexican Cartels have slowed down due to the global pandemic that restricts shipping. This made it hard for the cartels to transport their cocaine or drugs from Mexico to the United States.  

However, this global pandemic did not hinder the Cartel del Noreste, which was formed recently and members are coming to the infamous Los Zetas Cartel, to continue their illegal businesses through the help from an insider.

According to the federal investigators, Jennifer Loya who has worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas in San Francisco sine 2017 has been giving tips to the cartel using electronic surveillance that was made available to her due to the nature of her job. 

Roland Gustamante, Jennifer Loya's brother in law is known as an associate of the cartel's leader Israel Fernandez-Vasquez. Their cartel has been alleged to have operations in San Antonio via Monterey Mexico. 

Even though Fernandez-Vasquez was deported from the U.S. in 2018 back to Mexico, but smuggling drugs, cocaine, and meth were not difficult for the organized group even after that year. 

The conspiracy seems well established. Jennifer Loya sent an electronic copy of the information about federal information to her sister Kimberly and its husband Roland Gustamante. They have been tracking Jennifer since then to gather evidence.

The FBI agents said that they have found out that Jennifer's car was used by the couple to take the drug and cocaine to and from Mexico. From May 2019 to January 2020, the car was observed crossing the U.S.-Mexico border for 21 times. 

A drug trafficking operations in San Antoionio led to Jennifer Loya's arrest. The interrogation of the arrested group hinted that someone within their organization knew someone from the U.S. Attorney's Office . This sparked FBI's interest. 

The speculations even become more evident when another person from the group said that he knew there will be agents coming to arrest him. That was the reason why the drugs were moved overnight to another place.

The FBI agents who are investigating the drug smuggling and illegal businesses of the Cartel found out also that Jennifer Loya has printed out documents related to this investigation. This added up to the speculation that Loya is the informant of the cartel.

Loya is now under the custody of the bureau and is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Meanwhile, different news outlets tried to reach out to the lawyer of Jennifer Loya but no response was given. 

Moreover, the Cartel del Noreste as a split group of the notorious Los Zetas Cartel can be remembered for their violent shooting that killed four police authorities in the northern state of Coahuila. A video at that time even became viral when they burned into a truck and their attempt to take over the municipal buildings.

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