DEA: Family operated hand-in-hand with drug cartel

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Celia Ruiz-Ochoa spent her childhood sleeping on the hallway floor of her family's crowded three-bedroom home in Mexico. In 1986, when Ruiz-Ochoa was 18, she smuggled her 2-year-old son, Sergio, across the border to California to pursue the American dream. Two decades later, after settling in Dayton, the undocumented single mother of nine became the undisputed queen of an international drug trafficking operation that helped fuel the deadly opioid crisis in southern Ohio.

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