Owner/Promoter of Texas MMA promotion indicted for drug trafficking

The owner and promoter of South Texas Fighting Championship has been indicted for his alleged involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring, which used cops to steal drugs from rival gangs.

On March 24th, the US District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston Division) indicted Dimas De Leon on multiple counts of ‘Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine’.

De Leon, according to his Facebook page, is the owner/promoter of South Texas Fighting Championships (STFC), an MMA and boxing promotion that stages both professional and amateur bouts around the Texas/Mexico border. According to Sherdog, the promotion has staged 38 mixed-martial-arts events between February 16th, 2008 and their most recent event on February 5th, 2016.

STFC’s next boxing card is currently slated for April 23rd and boasts legend Juan Manuel Marquez as a ‘special guest’.

STFC’s MMA cards have featured notable fighters such as former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez (who competed at STFC 10 – Annihilation in 2010) and current UFC fighters Erik ‘El Goyito’ Perez (who has competed at six STFC events between 2008 and 2010) and Carlos Diego Ferreira (who competed three times for STFC between 2011 and 2013).

A criminal complaint against De Leon, filed March 4th (the day De Leon was arrested) states that an investigation into De Leon’s connection to a ‘drug trafficking organization’ began in October, 2013 after a confidential informant told US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in McAllen, Texas that De Leon was “responsible for re-distributing narcotics that the organization had stolen from various sources of supply.”

The complaint continues to allege that De Leon, and his cohorts, hired police officers to seize drug loads from other drug traffickers in the Rio Grande Valley Area. De Leon’s organization is then accused of distributing those drugs for profit, without the original traffickers realizing they’d been robbed.

A police officer from Edcouch, TX has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the above mentioned offenses.

According to a report from 4 Valley Central, Dimas De Leon plans to plead not guilty. He is considered innocent until proven otherwise.

The owner and promoter of South Texas Fighting Championship has been indicted for his alleged involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring, which used cops to steal drugs from rival gangs.

On March 24th, the US District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston Division) indicted Dimas De Leon on multiple counts of ‘Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine’.

De Leon, according to his Facebook page, is the owner/promoter of South Texas Fighting Championships (STFC), an MMA and boxing promotion that stages both professional and amateur bouts around the Texas/Mexico border. According to Sherdog, the promotion has staged 38 mixed-martial-arts events between February 16th, 2008 and their most recent event on February 5th, 2016.

STFC’s next boxing card is currently slated for April 23rd and boasts legend Juan Manuel Marquez as a ‘special guest’.

STFC’s MMA cards have featured notable fighters such as former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez (who competed at STFC 10 – Annihilation in 2010) and current UFC fighters Erik ‘El Goyito’ Perez (who has competed at six STFC events between 2008 and 2010) and Carlos Diego Ferreira (who competed three times for STFC between 2011 and 2013).

A criminal complaint against De Leon, filed March 4th (the day De Leon was arrested) states that an investigation into De Leon’s connection to a ‘drug trafficking organization’ began in October, 2013 after a confidential informant told US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in McAllen, Texas that De Leon was “responsible for re-distributing narcotics that the organization had stolen from various sources of supply.”

The complaint continues to allege that De Leon, and his cohorts, hired police officers to seize drug loads from other drug traffickers in the Rio Grande Valley Area. De Leon’s organization is then accused of distributing those drugs for profit, without the original traffickers realizing they’d been robbed.

A police officer from Edcouch, TX has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the above mentioned offenses.

According to a report from 4 Valley Central, Dimas De Leon plans to plead not guilty. He is considered innocent until proven otherwise.