Barber shops helped move millions of dollars of heroin into San Antonio area
A drug ring moved millions of dollars of heroin into this area using barber shops in San Antonio, Seguin and Floresville, delivering the drugs to customers at the shops and laundering the proceeds with other cash generated by haircuts, federal authorities said.
The group moved at least $8 million worth of heroin between 2014 and 2015 alone, federal agents said.
Two members of the ring, Salvador Gonzalez, 52, and one of his sons, Adrian Gonzalez, 30, owned the Acapulco Barber Shop chain and were among eight people charged a year ago in the scheme. The pair pleaded guilty Monday to heroin-trafficking conspiracy and conspiracy to launder money.
The shops were not necessarily “fronts” — they actually did cut customers’ hair, said John Convery, a lawyer for Adrian Gonzalez.
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