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Date: Sept. 30, 2026
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov
Salt Lake City, UT – As part of a Homeland Security Task Force-led investigation, an illegal alien from Mexico and former Salt Lake County business owner and operator of Multiservicios Lokos, LLC, admitted to her involvement in laundering over $17 million in drug proceeds.
Multiservicios Lokos, LLC is the operating business for the Money Service Business (MSB) side of Antojitos Lokos.
Georgina Espinoza-Grajeda of Eagle Mountain, Utah, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. She was initially indicted on Nov. 8, 2023, and charged in a third superseding indictment on Jan. 21, 2024.
According to court documents and admissions made at Espinoza-Grajeda’s change of plea hearing, from a date unknown to on or about Nov. 15, 2023, she and her co-conspirators conducted financial transactions affecting interstate commerce with the intent to promote the distribution of various controlled substances. She assisted in the money laundering of these drug proceeds by receiving cash proceeds from the sale of controlled substances and sent wire transfers through Antojitos Lokos.
In total, Espinoza-Grajeda and her co-conspirators deposited over $17,000,000 (U.S. dollars) in cash proceeds of drug sales of various controlled substances.
Espinoza-Grajeda is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 14, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. in courtroom 1.1 before a U.S. District Court Judge at the Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City.
United States Attorney Melissa Holyoak of the District of Utah made the announcement.
This case was investigated jointly by IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), FBI Salt Lake City Field Office, FBI Special Operations Group (FBI- SOG), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE-ERO), United States Marshals Service, Adult Parole and Probation, Park City Police Department, Davis County Metro Narcotics Strike Force, Utah County Major Crimes Task Force, American Fork Police Department, Salt Lake City Police Department, Sandy Police Department, South Jordan Police Department, South Salt Lake Police Department, South Salt Lake Business License Department, West Jordan Police Department, West Valley Police Department, Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake, and the Utah State Bureau of Investigations (SBI).
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jawayria Z. Auchter of the District of Utah is prosecuting the case.
This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF Salt Lake comprises agents and officers from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah.
IRS-CI is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. It is the only federal law enforcement agency with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code. IRS-CI has 16 field offices located across the U.S. and maintains an international presence through attaché posts abroad.