Legal Opinion
United States v. Celaya Valenzuela
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 24, 2017No. 16-1009PPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
Beginning in May of 2009, the FBI launched a sting operation, codenamed Operation Dark Water, targeting the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. Undercover agents held themselves out as an organized crime operation, led by an Italian mafia boss who went by the name El Viejo (“the Old Man”), which sought to procure a long-term source of cocaine from the cartel. Among the high-level cartel members eventually ensnared by this investigative web was Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela (“Celaya”), a financial planner and lawyer with close personal ties to the Cartel’s then-leader, Joaquin…
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