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A091 (Rev. 11/11) CrimirialComplaint

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the 1011 APR 12 AM 10 IS
Western District of Texas

United States of America

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ERIC JOSUE CARAZO ) if-rn- 2S
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Defendant(s)

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
I, the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
On or about the date(s) of April 10, 2017 in the county of Travis in the
Western District of Texas , the defendant(s) violated:
Code Section Offense Description
21 U.S.C. 841 (a) (1) knowingly and intentionally posses with the intent to distribute approximately
804 grams of Methylenedioxy-Methamphetamine (MDMA), a Schedule I
controlled sunstance.

This criminal complaint is based on these facts:

See Attached Affidavit.

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Complaina t's signature

Ismael Jacinto, Special Agent, HSI

Printed name and title

Sworn to before me and signed in my presence.

Date:
Jud gnature
ark Lane
City and state: ___________Austin, Texas Stfites Magistrate Judge
United
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
AUSTIN DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff.

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ERIC JOSUE CARAZO,

Defendant.

AFFIDAVIT I SUPPORT OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

I, Ismael Jacinto, being duly sworn, depose and state the following:

I. I am a Special Agent with the United States Department of Homeland Security

(DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and have been so employed for eight (8) years.

I am a "federal law enforcement officer" within the meaning of Rule 41 (a)(2)(C) of the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure, and am engaged in enforcing federal criminal laws and to conduct

investigations of offenses against the United States.

2. This affidavit is based on my personal knowledge as well as reports made by

other HSI agents and law enforcement officers. Because this affidavit is being submitted for the

limited purpose of establishing probable cause for the issuance of the complaint, it does not

contain every fact known to me or other HSI agents.

3. On April 1, 2017, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in New York

JFK airport were performing an enforcement examination of mail coming into the United States

from Germany. CBP K-9 Spike (CL-16) alerted to a particular parcel that was being shipped

from Germany and was destined for a David GARCIA, P.O. Box 40846 in Austin, TX. CBP

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officers opened the parcel and found 258 grams of a tan rock-like substance that field tested

positive for the characteristics of MDMA. SA Jacinto was informed and accepted the parcel in

attempts to conduct a controlled delivery in Austin, Texas.

4. SA Jacinto received the parcel on April 3, 2017, and was immediately handed

over to the Austin Police Department (APD). While doing checks on the P.O. Box, Postal

Inspector Carl King noticed that the P.O. Box already contained another parcel from the same

sender in Germany and addressed to a David GARCIA. The parcel was seized and handed over

toAPD.

5. On April 10, 2017, APD, along with HSI and Postal Inspector, waited at the post

office located at 3903 S Congress, Austin, TX, for David GARCIA to pick up the parcels. Eric

CARAZO arrived and signed to pick up the parcels from P.O. Box 40846. CARAZO was

detained by APD and questioned after notifying him of his Miranda Rights. CARAZO admitted

to ordering MDMA from the dark web and paying $1,500 for the two parcels he was picking up.

CARAZO also stated that he had a parcel that he had pick up from a different P.O. Box in Buda,

TX and it also contained MDMA. The third parcel was already at his house located at 810

Sussex, Austin, TX. CARAZO gave law enforcement consent to go into his house and retrieve

the other narcotics. A third package sent from the original sender in Germany was found and

also contained MDMA. The address on that parcel was made to Lucas Perez addressed to P.O

Box in Buda, TX.

6. While executing a search warrant from APD, two identification cards were found

with Carazo's picture. The first one was an ID from the state of North Carolina and had the

name David Daniel GARCIA and the second was for a Lucas PEREZ from Maryland.

CARAZO stated that he got the two IDs to get the P.O. Boxes in order to order narcotics.

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CONCLUSION

7. Based on the foregoing, there is probable cause to believe that ERIC JOSUE

CARAZO has committed the offenses set forth in the attached Criminal Complaint.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my

knowledge and belief.

ISMAEL JACINFO
Special Agent
Homeland Security Investigations
Austin, Texas

Subscribed and sworn to before me at Austin, Texas, on this Ii day of April,

2017.

UNITED STA TRATE JUDGE

Mark Lane Judge

MagiStrate
United States

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