{"id":367529,"date":"2026-07-09T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:11:33","slug":"6-indicted-in-alleged-drug-trafficking-organization-operating-in-el-paso-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367529\/","title":{"rendered":"6 indicted in alleged drug trafficking organization operating in El Paso County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; On Thursday, the 4th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office said six people were indicted in connection with an alleged drug trafficking organization operating out of El Paso County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judicial officials said the investigation began when the Colorado Springs Police Department found evidence of a large-scale drug distribution operation. At that point, the Drug Enforcement Administration assumed primary responsibility for the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The DA said investigators uncovered a sophisticated alleged drug trafficking organization operating from Mexico and possibly distributing drugs across the Pikes Peak region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the DA, law enforcement seized more than 108,000 suspected fentanyl pills, as well as large amounts of meth, cocaine, firearms and cash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials believe the organization was operating in El Paso County between July 1, 2025, and Nov. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The DA identified Oscar Casillas-Vizcarra, Jose Escalante-Enciso, Jesus Soto-Nunez and Bradley Castillo as suspects. Two others will be identified once arrest warrants are executed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The suspects are facing a list of charges that include drug distribution involving multiple types of drugs and pattern of racketeering.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; On Thursday, the 4th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office said six people were indicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-367529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}