He arrived in Minnesota after being flown by helicopter from South Texas, where he was previously held, Goodwin said. The stealthy move was not the first time Ramirez-Peyro had been transported undercover. Ramirez-Peyro had been placed in protective custody in 2004 after his identity became public and there were two attempts on his life.
His information also led to the conviction of more than 50 people.įor the past few years Ramirez-Peyro had been in solitary confinement at the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minn. Working undercover, Ramirez-Peyro had infiltrated the Vicente Carillo Fuents drug syndicate, also known as the Juarez Cartel. He witnessed or was involved in several killings, according to government documents. Ramirez-Peyro, a former Mexican police officer turned drug trafficker who became an ICE and Drug Enforcement Administration informant, was a central figure in the notorious “House of Death”, a dwelling in Ciudad Juarez where a dozen corpses, the alleged victims of drug-related slayings, were recovered. The facility is run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security. He is now being held at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia, New York. and escorted by a SWAT team onto a plane, in which he was the only prisoner, his attorney, Jodi Goodwin, said. Guillermo Eduardo Ramirez-Peyro, also known as Lalo, was taken out of solitary confinement at 3 a.m. Sign up for our newsletter to get our investigations and reporters’ insights delivered straight to your inbox.Ī drug informant facing deportation who recently won a reprieve in his case was scooped up last week by federal agents from a county jail in Minnesota and flown to an immigration detention center in upstate New York, his attorney said.
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