US authorities have sentenced Javier Passement, one of three men who ran a methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering operation in and around Tulsa, to nine years in prison.
In 2018, the authorities had charged Passement, Alfredo Herrera and Domingo Aguirre for breaching federal money laundering and drug conspiracy statutes. Herrera owned and operated Casa Herrera, a local money remitter business used to launder illegal drug proceeds.
Between 2015 and 2018, the three men sent drug proceeds to Felix Ordaz-Miranda in Mexico. They used fake nominee names to hide the true nature of these transactions. Passement conducted the wire transfers as directed by Herrera and Aguirre. Passement also knowingly distributed over 500 grams of methamphetamine received from Ordaz-Miranda.
Source: US Department of Justice