ICE says 5 Mexican fugitives sent to US are targets of probes into foreign terrorist organizations

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that five Mexican fugitives sent by authorities to the U.S. are targets of probes into foreign terrorist organizations.

ICE posted on X on Wednesday, "Five fugitives handed over by Mexican authorities on Jan. 20 are targets of ICE @HSIElPaso investigations into Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa Cartel cells."

The fugitives include Maria Del Carmen Navarro Sanchez, Luis Carlos Davalos Lopez, and Gustavo Castro-Medina, who are charged with providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations, narcotics trafficking, weapons trafficking, bulk cash smuggling, and human smuggling, according to ICE.

Another fugitive, Humberto Rivera-Rivera, who is allegedly a leader of a Sinaloa Cartel faction in Valle de Juarez, is charged with narcotics trafficking. Lastly, Roberto Gonzalez-Hernandez, allegedly a high-ranking Los Cabrera Cartel member, is charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute narcotics, alien smuggling, and possession of a firearm during a drug offense.

"These arrests demonstrate the power of international cooperation in dismantling transnational criminal organizations that threaten our communities," HSI El Paso acting Special Agent in Charge Taekuk Cho said in a statement on Feb. 2. "HSI El Paso and our law enforcement partners are committed to bringing fugitives to justice and protecting the safety and security of the United States."

The five fugitives are from a group of 37 fugitives that were expelled from Mexico into the U.S. on Jan. 20.

"The transfer marks only the third time that Mexico has used its National Security Law to expel fugitives to the United States," ICE said, noting that it was "the largest transfer of fugitives to occur," and the two previous times were last year.