Las Cruces, NM (KKOB) – Federal drug trafficking charges have been filed against five people for distribution of meth and fentanyl in southern NM led by an American citizen running the operation from a prison in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
According to court documents, beginning in 2025, the FBI, Las Cruces/Dona Ana County Metro Narcotics and Homeland Security Investigations began investigating a drug trafficking organization that was distributing meth and fentanyl from Ciudad Juarez into southern New Mexico. 34-year old Felix Anthony Salazar III who is an American citizen, is suspected of coordinating the drug transactions.
In one transaction, an El Paso woman used a 16-year old to make a transaction to an undercover agent in Anthony, NM. Other transactions with undercover agents happened in Las Cruces, and Sunland Park,.
Felix Salazar III crossing U.S -Mexico border in custody
The five people arrested are from El Paso and charged with distribution and are in federal custody Salazar, the alleged leader of the group surrendered to law enforcement after being released from jail in Juarez and crossing the border into the U.S.
