BREAKING: Mexican illegal alien in Utah pled guilty in federal court to laundering over $17 MILLION in drug proceeds inside a now-closed Salt Lake City Mexican restaurant (pictured below).
Georgina Espinoza-Grajeda, 43 was residing in Eagle Mountain, UT and had 24 co-conspirators as part of a money laundering operation funneling drug money from Utah to Mexico and Honduras.
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. The restaurant was located in a strip mall on 3300 S and 300 E in Salt Lake City, UT.
Georgina Espinoza-Grajeda, 43, of Eagle Mountain, Utah, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. She was initially indicted on November 8, 2023, and charged in a third superseding indictment on January 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 November 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. (See prior press release: 24 Defendants, including an Utah Business Owner, Accused of Running a Drug and Money Laundering Operation from Utah to Mexico and Honduras.)
Espinoza-Grajeda is scheduled to be sentenced on December 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.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jawayria Z. Auchter of the District of Utah is prosecuting the case.