堪萨斯城13人被起诉 涉贩运冰毒和可卡因与非法持有机关枪
2025年6月20日，美国司法部宣布，一名联邦大陪审团已起诉13人，指控他们共谋分销冰毒与可卡因，并涉及多项毒品分销、非法持有机关枪等罪名。案件在密苏里州杰克逊县堪萨斯城的联邦法院审理，13人中10人是墨西哥公民、1人是危地马拉公民、2人是美国公民。
这份共40项罪名的起诉书由堪萨斯城的联邦大陪审团于2025年6月11日以密封方式提交，在被羁押者首次出庭后解封公开。司法部说，调查从2024年1月持续到2025年6月，调查人员缴获了约40公斤冰毒、2公斤可卡因与11支枪，其中3支装有机关枪改装装置、能全自动射击。
2025年6月18日，十多个执法机构联合行动，9名被告在行动中被捕，另有3人此前已被羁押，1人仍在逃；行动中还另行缴获9支枪。首名被告 Uriel Lopez-Farias 现年31岁、墨西哥公民，被控共谋分销受管制物质、分销冰毒、外国人持有枪支、非法持有机关枪以及分销和企图分销可卡因，检方说这些罪名合计最高可判终身监禁。多名共同被告面临同样的最高刑；美国公民 Kenneth Baez 被控非法持有机关枪与重罪犯持有枪支，最高可判15年。
此案由联邦检察官助理 Megan A. Baker 与 Heather Siegele 承办，参与调查的包括联邦调查局、缉毒局、烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局、国土安全调查局与杰克逊县缉毒特别工作组等机构。司法部说，此案属于全国性的「夺回美国行动」与堪萨斯城地区国土安全特别工作组的工作范围。检方提醒，起诉书只是指控，被告在被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
（来源：美国司法部）
13 Indicted in Kansas City on Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Machine Gun Charges
On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury had indicted 13 people for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine, along with numerous counts of distribution, illegal possession of machine guns and other offenses. The case is before a federal court in Kansas City, a city in Jackson County, Missouri. Of the 13 defendants, ten are Mexican nationals, one is a Guatemalan national and two are United States citizens.
The forty-count indictment was returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on June 11, 2025, and was unsealed after those in custody made their initial appearances. The Justice Department said the investigation ran from January 2024 through June 2025, and investigators seized approximately 40 kilograms of methamphetamine, two kilograms of cocaine and 11 firearms, three of which had been equipped with machine gun conversion devices and functioned as fully automatic weapons.
A law enforcement operation on June 18, 2025, resulted in nine arrests. Three defendants were already in custody and one remained at large, and the operation also seized nine additional firearms. The first-named defendant, Uriel Lopez-Farias, 31, a Mexican national, is charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, distribution of methamphetamine, alien in possession of a firearm, illegal possession of a machine gun, and distribution and attempted distribution of cocaine, charges that carry up to life imprisonment. Several co-defendants face the same maximum, while Kenneth Baez, a U.S. citizen, is charged with illegal possession of a machine gun and felon in possession of a firearm, carrying up to 15 years.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Megan A. Baker and Heather Siegele and was investigated by the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations and the Jackson County Drug Task Force, among others. The Justice Department said the case is part of Operation Take Back America and the Kansas City Regional Homeland Security Task Force. The charges are only allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：从 Liberty Memorial 望向堪萨斯城市中心。Brian Hillegas 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, seen from the Liberty Memorial. Photo by Brian Hillegas, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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