Recently filed court papers have revealed that Noe Juarez, a 46-year-old Houston police officer once awarded ‘cop of the year’, was not only selling firearms, bulletproof vests, luxury cars, police scanners, intelligence and database access to one of Mexico’s most-feared drug cartels, he was secretly working for the cartel in a drug trafficking conspiracy since 2006.
On October 2, 2015, the Government provided, upon defense request, a Bill of Particulars to aid the defense in understanding the basic evidence of the two charged conspiracies in the superseding indictment. The Government provided an essential summary of the most significant intrinsic evidence and overt acts by the defendant, Noe Juarez, to aid the defense in its understanding of the two charged conspiracies.
The intrinsic evidence that the Government will offer during its case-in-chief will show that in Counts 1 and 2 that two conspiracies existed to (1) distribute five (5) kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride by the charged defendants, that is, Efrain Grimaldo, Sergio Grimaldo, Sabino Duarte and Noe Juarez, and others known and unknown, and (2) that Noe Juarez and others known and unknown conspired to possess firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
The structure of the charged conspiracy in count one (1) of the superseding indictment includes Efrain Grimaldo and Sergio Grimaldo arranging to receive and receiving large shipments of cocaine hydrochloride from drug sources in Mexico, to include drug supplies from members of the Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel.
The disgraced cop was arrested in April in a joint operation by the FBI and the DEA and was indicted for conspiracy to distribute five kilos or more of cocaine as well as to possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. If found guilty, Juarez could serve a life sentence and receive a $10 million fine.
During a bond hearing, FBI agent Jose Garcia showed a video secretly recorded in 2011 that featured a uniformed Juarez handing over two assault rifles to an undercover government informants he thought was a major drug trafficker. Juarez – who later supplied ammunition, magazines and pepper spray to the government informants – received a total of $4,500 for the guns and was told they were being sent to Mexico.
Another video recorded in July 2011 revealed Juarez running license plates through the Houston Police Department database for an undercover informant who told the cop that the plate numbers belonged to people who owed him $800,000 in drug money. Garcia said Juarez supplied a name and address from one of the plates in exchange for $500.
DEA special agent Larry Johnson testified Juarez was connected to cartel members Efrain and Sergio Grimaldo, the primary suppliers of cocaine to a violent street gang named Up Da Bayou Boys (UBB) in Houma. Johnson said Juarez acted as a “straw buyer” to purchase automobiles for the brothers since 2005.
Despite the evidence against him, Juarez’s attorney, George Murphy, asserted that the prosecution’s case against the 20-year veteran is thin.
“The government’s case is weak in proving that Noe knew these guys were drug dealers. It’s not illegal to buy a car for somebody, and it’s not illegal to sell someone a gun. All of the weapons talked about in the court were legal weapons, and all of the people he sold the guns to were American citizens, who had the lawful right to bear arms.“
Bond set $50,000 for HPD Off Noe Juarez, accused of buying guns/cars for Zetas drug cartel & charged w/ conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
— Phil Archer (@PhilArcher_KPRC) April 13, 2015
Murphy also argued that the former cop did not know he was doing business with drug dealers.
“He had no idea these people were associated with any drug activity at all and if he had know he wouldn’t have done it.”
In June 2014, Sergio Grimaldo was indicted along with Juarez; he pleaded guilty in September 2015 and is now cooperating with the United States in the prosecution of the case. In September 2014, Efrain Grimaldo (Juarez’s nephew who Juarez claims had no idea was a member of the Zetas cartel) was sentenced to 33 years in federal prison by a New Orleans judge after he was found guilty of smuggling 1,640 kilograms of cocaine that was distributed in Jackson, Mississippi, Pensacola, Florida, New York City, Detroit, Baltimore, Maryland, Dover, Delaware and Houma, Louisiana.
“As a member of the Los Zetas cartel, one of the most notorious criminal enterprises in Mexico or the United States, Grimaldo endangered the lives of innocent people on both sides of the border,” US Attorney Kenneth Polite said after Efrain was sentenced.
Houston Police Officers Union statement on former officer Noe Juarez arrested yesterday on federal drug charges pic.twitter.com/WSSVYYTWme
— Kristine Galvan (@Kristine_Galvan) April 8, 2015
With the help of the Grimaldos, the cartel, described by the Mexican Defense Ministry as “the most formidable death squad” in the country, supplied drug markets throughout the South and Upper Midwest and East Coast, including New York City.
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