BREAKING: FBI & DEA Storm Las Vegas University — What Began as Student Medical Emergencies Uncovered a $28 Million Cartel Pipeline

For over two years, a string of isolated student overdoses, quiet ambulance calls, and unnoticed delays in the campus mailroom went largely unchallenged. But it wasn’t until federal analysts pieced together a pattern that the shocking truth began to unfold. All roads led to Nevada’s largest university.

At 4:42 a.m., just before dawn, FBI and DEA agents executed a precision strike across Las Vegas, catching the university off guard. No sirens. No warnings. The target wasn’t some hidden stash house or a warehouse filled with illegal goods. It was the university president’s office, where agents uncovered a web of corruption that spanned far beyond academia.

Inside the office, federal agents found what should never exist on a campus: pink cocaine, fentanyl, encrypted ledgers, and millions in cash. What had been marketed as student wellness initiatives and innovation grants turned out to be a massive money laundering operation, allegedly pushing over $28 million through scholarships, nonprofits, and administrative programs tied to a violent Sinaloa Cartel subgroup.

Campus mailrooms were identified as distribution points, while grant offices became shields for the operation. Senior administrators allegedly manipulated internal systems, concealing the operation behind the university’s own legitimate programs.

As raids spread across Henderson, Paradise, and North Las Vegas, it became clear: this wasn’t just drug trafficking. This was an infiltration—an organized criminal network hiding in plain sight, using the university as its front.

The investigation is ongoing, and with each arrest, more unsettling details emerge. The most disturbing question still lingers after the arrests were made: How many others inside the institution were complicit?