A federal grand jury in south Texas has indicted five men for their alleged roles in a drug trafficking and money laundering ring, federal prosecutors in Corpus Christi said Wednesday. The accused include three Texans: Mario Capote-Morejon, 43, and Enrique Artiles-Mata, 54, both of McAllen; and Helvis Artiles, 25, of Mission. All three have been arrested, along with Victor Pacheco-Ortiz, 35, of Brooklyn, New York, and Osvaldo Alpizar, 57, of Miami, Florida. Between January 2008 and the present, the men conspired to distribute cocaine, prosecutors said. They added that Artiles-Mata was also charged with money laundering. The "transactional" money laundering charge -- brought pursuant to Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1957 -- stems from the fact that some drug trafficking proceeds were allegedly moved through Texas-based Inter National Bank for the purchase of a 1979 Cessna aircraft. Thomson Reuters was unable to reach the defendants for comment. The indictment, handed-up in
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