Texas Teacher Now Fugitive After Family's Drug Trafficking And Murder Charges

 

The U.S. Marshals Service is looking for a former Texas elementary school teacher whose sister and brothers were charged in a murder-for-hire plot linked to drug trafficking in Juárez.

 Monica Velasco, 42, was indicted by a federal grand jury.She is wanted on federal charges of conspiracy linked to racketeering, drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy to kidnap in a foreign country.

 Last fall, Velasco’s sister and two brothers were charged in connection to the 2008 murder of a man and his two daughters in Juárez.Allegedly,they were part of the Velasco criminal enterprise – were accused of kidnappings for ransom, extortion, auto theft and drug trafficking.

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