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Indictment Unsealed After Accused Drug Trafficker Killed in Guatemalan-Mexico Border Shootout

The Guatemalan drug traffickers are alleged to have trafficked drugs into Mexico with the help of notorious Mexican cartels.
Indictment Unsealed After Accused Drug Trafficker Killed in Guatemalan-Mexico Border Shootout
Police officers conduct an operation in the deserts of Sonora, Mexico, on April 15, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Kimberly Hayek
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A man killed by Mexican authorities was identified as one of 13 Guatemalan nationals believed to be part of a cocaine trafficking organization based along the Guatemala-Mexico border, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said on June 16.

Baldemar Calderon-Carrillo, known as “Don Valde,” was killed in a shootout with Mexican state police on June 8. He was the lead defendant in a May 2019 indictment by U.S. prosecutors.

Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.