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A reward of up to $10 million is being offered for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a suspected Guatemalan drug kingpin who was indicted in San Diego, the Department of
Justice announced Friday. Authorities say Eugenio Dario Molina-Lopez, also known as “Don Dario,” leads a criminal organization called Los Huistas, based in northwest Guatemala, bordering
Mexico. Molina-Lopez, 57, is charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine intended for unlawful importation and conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board a vessel. The investigation into
Los Huistas is part of Operation Guerrilla Unit, which targets high-level Guatemalan drug traffickers and their suppliers. U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman called the case “one of this
district’s most significant, comprehensive and large-scale drug trafficking prosecutions.” On Friday, the Department of Justice also announced another indictment was unsealed in San Diego in
a separate case charging another alleged Guatemalan drug trafficker, 35-year-old Axel Bladimir Montejo Saenz, also a fugitive. He is accused of taking part in a conspiracy to distribute
cocaine in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and elsewhere. _Updated 7:30 p.m. March 18, 2022_