The Southern District of Florida's Narcotics Section leads the nation in prosecuting high-level narcotics traffickers. This Section has distinguished itself by prosecuting some of the most notorious narco-traffickers in the world, from dismantling the leaders of the infamous Sinaloa, Medellin, Cali, and Norte Valle cartels, to the extradition and conviction of high-ranking commanders of Colombian paramilitary and guerilla groups. The Section also targets the transnational money laundering networks utilized by the narco-traffickers to financially devastate their organizations. The Narcotics Section also has several AUSAs who are stationed at the Office's South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), a satellite office. HIDTA focuses on disrupting the market for illegal drugs and dismantling drug trafficking and associated money laundering organizations in South Florida through collaboration between federal, state, and local age...