Inside "the Pool": Fugitive arrested in alleged scheme to control cross-border car trade

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Rigoberto Brown, a fugitive in a price-fixing scheme, has been arrested near McAllen, Texas.
The scheme, known as "the Pool," allegedly monopolized the used car export business through the Rio Grande Valley.
Prosecutors allege that Carlos Martinez, a businessman and son-in-law of a former cartel leader, controlled the operation by fixing prices and sharing revenues.
The "empresa" allegedly coerced businesses into their system and imposed an extortion payment called "piso" on vehicles crossing the border.
Threats and violence were allegedly used to enforce the arrangement.
Brown faces federal charges related to price-fixing and monopolizing the transmigrante forwarding business.
Carlos Martinez pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11 years in prison and a $2 million fine.
Two other defendants, Miguel Hipolito Caballero Aupart and Diego Ceballos-Soto, remain fugitives.

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