US Indicts Mexican National on First Terrorism Charges for Allegedly Supplying Arms to Cartel

Acting ICE director Todd Lyons said the suspect’s alleged crimes were a ‘direct assault on the security of the United States.’

The letters 'CJNG' for the group's formal name, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is scrawled on the facade of an abandoned home, in El Limoncito, in the Michoacan state of Mexico, on Oct. 30, 2021. Eduardo Verdugo /AP Photo

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on May 16 indicted a Mexican national for allegedly providing material support to a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, the first indictment of its kind in the United States.

Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, 39, was accused of supplying grenades to the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico’s powerful transnational criminal organizations, according to the DOJ.