Federal authorities on Wednesday unsealed a 30-person indictment that outlines the workings of a sophisticated drug cartel that for years was pumping hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine throughout Colorado.

Officials have arrested 24 of the people mentioned in the indictment on a slew of charges, including racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy to distribute various drugs. The remaining indictees are on the lam across U.S. and Mexico.

The leader of the group, Candelaria Vallejo-Gallo, was arrested last week in her Aurora home, according to Dean Phillips, acting special agent in charge at the Denver division of the FBI.

Vallejo-Gallo, who is in her early 40s, faces more than 50 counts, including the rarely levied charge of “continuing a criminal enterprise” or “a drug kingpin charge,” according to local U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn.

During the course of a year-long investigation into Vallejo-Gallo’s group, authorities seized more than 400 pounds of methamphetamine, five pounds of heroin, four pounds of cocaine and about 15,000 pills of fentanyl that had been disguised to look like prescription Oxycodone, officials said.

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