United States v. Fuentes

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BESOSA, District Judge.

Before the Court are six defendants’ motions for relief from joinder, the United States’s response, and defendants’ replies. (Docket Nos. 732, 804, 819, 836, 911, & 927.)

I. Background

On May 24, 2012, a grand jury returned a two count indictment against twenty defendants, alleging a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine — in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 & 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 — between 1999 and 2009. (Docket No. 3.) The conspiracy as alleged involved smuggling cocaine through luggage checked into American Airlines flights from…