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United States vs Ledesma et al. 22-cr-20269 SD Fla

As of May 24, 2023

Carlos Orlando Ledesma pleaded guilty to 1 count of  18 U.S.C. § 371, Conspiracy to export stolen vessel parts and to smuggle goods from the
United States and was sentenced to 36 months in prison, 3 years supervised release and ordered to pay $420,6668.47 in restitution.

Nadia Esperanza Ledesma pleaded guilty1 count of  18 U.S.C. § 371, Conspiracy to export stolen vessel parts and to smuggle goods from the
United States and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, 1 year supervised release and ordered to pay $420,6668.47 in restitution.

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As of March 13, 2023

Two Miami residents, Carlos Orlando Ledesma, 57, and Nadia Esperanza Ledesma, 46, have pled guilty to conspiring to export nearly 600 stolen outboard engines to Mexico through a Miami-based freight forwarding company.  

Previously, on February 22, co-defendants Roberto Marrero-Cisneros, 65, from Miami, and Osmani Valdivia Perez, 55, from Lehigh Acres, also pled guilty to the same conspiracy charge. 

Nadia Ledesma is the President of Netcycle Trading Corp., a freight forwarding company in Miami, and Carlos Ledesma is the warehouse manager. According to court documents, from 2015 to 2018, Carlos and Nadia Ledesma received almost 600 stolen outboard engines for export to Mexico.  Dozens of individuals delivered the stolen engines.  The engines had visible damage from the thefts, and cables and lines had been cut rather than properly detached.  The individuals delivered the stolen engines in non-commercial vehicles without bills of sale or any other documentation for the engines. 

According to court documents, Marrero-Cisneros created false serial number stickers to place on the stolen outboard engines.  Nadia and Carlos Ledesma, and their co-conspirators, created false bills of sale and submitted false export information to the United States. 

Many of the stolen engines were directed to Tomas Vale Valdivia, a co-conspirator who was then in Mexico.  Later, on January 28, 2020, Vale Valdivia was sentenced to 57 months for alien smuggling, in a separate case before U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams. 

Vale Valdivia is the nephew of defendant Osmani Valdivia Perez.  Valdivia Perez made many cash payments to co-conspirators in this case, on behalf of Vale Valdivia.  The cash payments included payments to Netcycle for the fees for exporting the stolen outboard engines, payments to Marrero-Cisneros for the false serial numbers, and payments to the individuals who stole the outboard engines.

U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. set the sentencing hearings for Marrero-Cisneros and Valdivia Perez for May 8, and the sentencing hearings for Carlos and Nadia Ledesma for May 23.

LINK: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/owners-freight-forwarding-company-plead-guilty-exporting-stolen-outboard-engines

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