Mexican engineer indicted in US over CJNG cross-border tunnel case
A federal grand jury in the United States has indicted Mexican engineer Luis Manuel Hernandez Victoria for allegedly designing and constructing a sophisticated cross-border subterranean drug tunnel for the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. The source identifies the cartel as a Mexican syndicate that the U.S. government has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
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Hernandez is also named in the indictment as "El Ingeniero" (the Engineer). The charges include providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to construct or finance a cross-border tunnel, conspiracy to use a cross-border tunnel to import controlled substances, and conspiracy to import controlled substances.
The filing centers on the alleged tunnel operation and its role in drug importation. No further operational details, arrest status, tunnel location, or court outcome are provided in the source text.
The case is presented as a federal terrorism-support and narcotics-smuggling prosecution tied to the CJNG network.
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