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Arizona MSB Agents Tied to Human Trafficking, Money Laundering Scheme
By Brian Orsak
printCorrection Appended Owners of two Arizona-based money remittance businesses helped launder $56.8 million in proceeds from an illegal human trafficking and drug smuggling operation, say state prosecutors. Bruce Dennis Love, 50, and two business partners transferred and disguised payments for human traffickers, called "coyotes," who brought illegal aliens to three business locations in Phoenix and Mesa, Ariz., between 2002 and 2006. Prosecutors also charged Love's partners, but were withholding their names until they were served with the indictments. Investigators, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Phoenix police officers, conducted surveillance operations on the businesses, which operated four Western...
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