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Admit it! We’ve all seen a taco truck that looked sketchy before and gave it the benefit of the doubt, because TACOS! However, Texas authorities found that one taco truck was up to no good. It was being used by drug traffickers that abused the U.S. mail system to sell meth, heroin, and more. 

Drug traffickers use taco truck and U.S. mail system to sell meth in Texas 

After Hurricane Helene hit, local taco trucks were the only source of warm food for days in my neck of the woods. I would never suspect one of criminal activities after they were there for me. 

However, one taco truck in Houston, Texas was the source of illegal drug trafficking. Officers with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) charged 15 people involved with delivering narcotics with the truck and abusing the U.S. mail system. 

Illegal drugs such as meth, powder cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, psilocybin mushrooms, and marijuana were being shipped from Mexico. Then gang members drove the food truck through Houston neighborhoods to distribute them. 

According to KHOU, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Houston and the Houston Police Department worked on this investigation. Additionally, the FBI, ATF, and Texas Board of Criminal Justice Office of the Inspector General assisted. 

Many of the suspects were also trafficking illegally possessed firearms despite having previously been convicted of felonies. 

While 15 suspects were taken into custody, three fugitives remain at large with warrants out for their arrest. 

Police officers are searching for: 

• Mexican national, Jose Francisco Garcia-Martinez, 29, AKA ‘Paco’
• Guatemalan national, Marcos Rene Simaj-Guch, 41, AKA ‘Taco Man’ 
• Jose Eduardo Morales, 22, AKA ‘Primo’