The modus operandi of the criminal organization was to create a logistics structure formed by an illegal (unregistered) company that would offer freight transportation services from Central American countries into Mexico and vice versa. This company would bring together other similar companies as its subsidiaries, created by straw men employed by the creator of the first company. Freight service vehicles were registered to the straw men, although the documentation and management of the vehicles was handled in El Salvador, at the location of the first company. Simultaneously, drivers and workers from different nationalities (except Salvadorian) were hired and appeared to be working for the straw men, when they were actually being paid by the head of the organization.

These were the drivers who were caught transporting large shipments of drugs in vehicles registered to the head of the criminal group and its straw men. The confiscations took place between 2004 and 2008 in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Initially it did not appear that the operations were linked to the head of the organization, but further investigations  proved otherwise. Six drug confiscations and one money confiscation were carried out, amounting to 3.800 kilograms of cocaine and $2.219.000 that were intended to be taken from Costa Rica to Mexico, passing through Salvadorian territory.

The case was initiated after an exchange of intelligence information between Drug Control Offices in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, due to the sporadic drug confiscations carried out by authorities between 2004 and 2008 in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. After intelligence was gathered, the investigation focused on the organization itself, which involved certification of court records in the countries where the confiscations had taken place, as well as verification from local authorities. After the participants in every event were identified, a request was made to the Ninth Local Court (Tribunal Noveno de Paz) in San Salvador, which ordered the members of the criminal organization to be detained and their properties to be seized; in total 60 freight vehicles, fifteen bank accounts, and luxury vehicles and property.

Requests were made for the certification of administrative and judicial processes carried out in neighbouring countries, and were supplied by the appropriate authorities. Although there was coordination between authorities, some certificates and investigative proceedings were not sent in the requested timeframe nor with the necessary requirements for their use in court. Although additional support was requested, there was a lack of diligence in the investigation. Currently the authorities have ordered the main defendant and leader of the criminal group to be taken to trial for six counts of drug trafficking, one count of smuggling and one for being part of an illegal organization.