BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - FBI Release: The FBI Safe Streets Task Force executed 27 federal arrest warrants and four federal search warrants Tuesday morning. The arrests and searches follow a long-term investigation into the illegal activities of the Javier Navarro drug trafficking organization.
Of the 27 arrest warrants, the FBI-SSTF executed 16 warrants locally, the FBI in New Jersey executed 2 warrants in Newark, and the FBI in Puerto Rico executed 2 warrants in San Juan. Notably, 7 of the arrest warrants were for individuals already incarcerated on related charges.
In the summer of 2009, the FBI-SSTF initiated an investigation into the drug trafficking activities of Javier Navarro and his associates. To date, the investigation has revealed that Navarro and his co-conspirators have been involved in the trafficking of multiple kilogram quantities of cocaine from source cities in Puerto Rico and New Jersey between May 2009 and December 2009. The investigation has also established that various subjects use and sell marijuana and heroin. A number of the defendants are also charged with possessing and selling firearms.
According to the criminal complaint, Javier Navarro and Jose DeLeon coordinated with middle level cocaine distributors and supplied quantities of cocaine, to several known gang members in Buffalo, NY.
The FBI-SSTF believes the defendants from Puerto Rico and New Jersey supplied Navarro and his associates with approximately 21 kilograms of cocaine between May 2009 and December 2009. The cocaine was then re-distributed in and around the Western New York area.
The complaint alleges that defendants located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, shipped packages believed to contain illegal narcotics to defendants located in Buffalo, New York, via the United States Postal Service and commercial airlines. The complaint further alleges that defendants in Newark, New Jersey supplied defendants in Buffalo, New York, large amounts of cocaine on multiple occasions. During the course of this investigation, and prior to today’s arrests and searches, law enforcement officers have seized in excess of $100,000 and multiple kilograms of powder cocaine.
The FBI-SSTF, with the assistance of other law enforcement agencies, executed federal arrest warrants this morning for the following individuals:
1. Javier Navarro, Incarcerated, In custody
2. Jose DeLeon, In custody
3. Eric DeLeon-Navarro, Sr., Fugitive
4. Julio Manuel DeLeon-Navarro, In custody
5. Eric De Leon, Jr, Incarcerated, In custody
6. Javier Mejia, Incarcerated, In custody
7. Edwin Laurencio, Fugitive
8. Carlos Cruz, In custody
9. Alex Santiago, Incarcerated, In custody
10. Margarita Ortiz, In custody
11. Katherine Nieves, Incarcerated, In custody
12. Javier Santiago, In custody
13. Christopher Santiago, In custody
14. Laura Sirianni-Navarro, In custody
15. Luis Vazquez, In custody
16. Isabelo Cruz, In custody
17. Matthew Deyne, In custody
18. David Colon, Fugitive
19. Nourooz Ali, Fugitive
20. Efrain Barretto, In custody
21. Nelson Colon, Incarcerated, In custody
22. Rolando Rivera-Santos, Incarcerated, In custody
23. Ronald Kolasinski, In custody
24. Anibal Gonzalez, Fugitive
25. Ashley Weston, In custody
26. Ronald Mitchell, Fugitive
27. Jose Figueroa, In custody
Defendants (1) through (26) are charged with violations of Title 21, (knowingly, intentionally and unlawfully possessing with intent to distribute and did distribute a mixture and substance containing 5 kilograms or more of cocaine; and knowingly, intentionally and unlawfully conspiring with intent to distribute and did distribute a mixture and substance containing 5 kilograms or more of cocaine).
The following defendants are also charged with violations of Title 21, USC, §848 (knowingly, willfully, intentionally and unlawfully engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise in that they did violate 21 USC §841(a)(1) and §846, which violations were part of a continuing series of violations of said statutes): Javier Navarro (1), Jose DeLeon (2), Eric Deleon-Navarro, Sr. (3), Julio Manuel de Leon- Navarro, Sr.(4), and Carlos Cruz (8).
The following defendants are also charged with violations of Title 21, USC, §841(a)(1), §846, and §2 (knowingly, intentionally and unlawfully possessing with intent to distribute and did distribute heroin): David Colon (18), Jose DeLeon(2), and Jose Figueroa (27).
The following defendants are also charged with violation of Title 18, USC, §924(c) and §2 (possessing firearms during and in relation to, or in furtherance of, a drug trafficking crime, for which they may be prosecuted in a court of the United States): Javier Navarro (1), Jose DeLeon (2), and Matthew Deynes (17).
The defendants arrested locally will have their initial appearances Tuesday in front of the Honorable United States Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr.
The SSTF, with the assistance of additional law enforcement agencies, also executed 4 federal search warrants. Warrants were at the homes of Matthew Deynes,
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