Cartels Moved $600 Million in Cocaine Through Chicago Every Month

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Corruption? Or just plain incompetence?


This comes from Business Insider – Smugglers Detail How Mexico's Most Notorious Cartel Moved $60 Million Worth Of Cocaine Through Chicago Every Month


Mexican authorities may have caught the leaver of the Sinaloa Cartel but that doesn't mean the shipment of drugs north to the USA will stop.


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Granny says, "Dat's right - it'll kill ya...

Officials: Cocaine, alcohol caused NY dermatologist's death
Oct. 19, 2015 — A successful dermatologist who was found unconscious in the entry of a Manhattan building after a night of partying died of acute cocaine and alcohol intoxication, the medical examiner's office said Monday.

The Oct. 4 death of Kiersten Cerveny, a 38-year-old doctor from Long Island with a husband and three children, was ruled an accident, according to Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner. The finding of an overdose confirmed what police had suspected all along. Authorities believed Cerveny had been snorting cocaine all night as she shared drinks with a television and movie producer at a Lower East Side nightspot.

Detectives said Cerveny eventually rode back to a Chelsea apartment building with the producer, a Facebook friend of Cerveny's identified by police as Marc Henry Johnson. The two pulled up at the modest five-story walk-up around 4:30 a.m. Four hours later, surveillance video showed Johnson and another man carrying Cerveny down the stairs to the building's entryway. Johnson called 911 and stayed with Cerveny until EMTs arrived, then left. When police officers showed up, Cerveny was in the lobby, unconscious and unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

Detectives questioned Johnson but he was not charged with a crime. Johnson is the producer of "The Deuce," an HBO pilot starring James Franco that focuses on the rise of the porn industry in New York in the 1970s and '80s. Neither Johnson nor his attorney responded to requests for comment. Cerveny's achievements included winning the 1995 America's Junior Miss competition as a teenager from Blackwood, New Jersey. The prize was a $30,000 scholarship she used to attend Duke University. After graduating, she earned her medical degree from Tulane.

Officials: Cocaine, alcohol caused NY dermatologist's death

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In rebuke, US blocks $5M in drug aid for Mexico over rights
Oct 19,`15 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has withheld $5 million in anti-drug aid to Mexico over concerns about human rights in the country, the State Department said Monday.

It's a small portion of what the U.S. gives Mexico each year but conveys a pointed message to its southern neighbor, which has come under the spotlight for abuses including last year's disappearance of 43 students at the hands of police. The State Department is obliged by law to hold back 15 percent of some anti-drug aid to Mexico under the Merida Initiative until it delivers a report to Congress on human rights in the country. Spokesman Mark Toner said the department has not sent that report. "This year the Department was unable to confirm and report to Congress that Mexico fully met all of the criteria in the fiscal year 2014 appropriation legislation, and the 15 percent was redirected away from Mexico," Toner said.

He said that Washington continues to support Mexico's efforts to reform its law enforcement and justice systems, and added that Mexico and the United States "have made significant progress" working to combat organized crime. In a statement, Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said the country is aware it has challenges and is committed to protecting human rights. "Nevertheless, it rejects any kind of unilateral practice that judges the human rights situation in a country," the statement said. Washington sent Mexico $195 million under the Merida Initiative last year, according to State Department figures.

The $5 million in diverted funds will go instead to Peru for efforts to eradicate plantations of coca, the source of the base ingredient for cocaine. Mexico has been criticized for human rights concerns such as the alleged extrajudicial killings of suspects by security forces and the 2014 disappearance of 43 teachers' college students, who were detained by police in the southern state of Guerrero and have not been heard from since. Mexican authorities say the students were handed over to a drug gang, killed and incinerated in a garbage dump, though relatives of the victims and international investigators have cast doubt on the official version.

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Man died on plane after drugs burst in stomach
Tue, Oct 20, 2015 - Postmortem finds Brazilian man John Kennedy Santos Gurjao had 0.8kg of suspected cocaine in 80 pellets

Gardaí have started an investigation after a postmortem confirmed a 24-year-old Brazilian man died on board an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin when a consignment of drugs burst in his stomach. A postmortem by Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster confirmed John Kennedy Santos Gurjao had ingested around 0.8kg of suspected cocaine in 80 wrapped pellets. One of the pellets burst and he became ill on the flight from Lisbon to Dublin on Sunday. Dr Bolster took samples for toxicology tests which are expected to confirm the substance is cocaine and if so, the total quantity of drugs found in Mr Santos Gurjao’s system would have an estimated street value of around €56,000.
Liaising

Gardaí are liaising with Portuguese and Brazilian police to try to establish Mr Santos Gurjao’s movements and when he might have ingested the drugs prior to boarding flight EI 485 at Lisbon airport. It is believed he was going to study English in Dublin. Gardaí were also in contact with the Brazilian embassy who, in turn, were in touch with officials in Mr Santos Gurjao’s home city of Boa Vista in northern Brazil, near the border with Venezuela, to inform his family of their son’s death. The airbus 320-200 series plane had to be diverted to Cork Airport when Mr Santos Gurjao became ill and agitated. Aer Lingus cabin crew had to restrain him with handcuffs before he started to convulse and he then collapsed into unconsciousness.

Garda technical team pictured during the examination of an Aer Lingus at Cork Airport on which the 24-year old man died.​

Performed CPR

A doctor and two nurses who were travelling on the flight attended Mr Santos Gurjao and performed CPR until the plane landed at Cork Airport. HSE paramedics also attended to him at the airport, but he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Mr Santos Gurjao appeared to be travelling alone but it is understood other passengers pointed out a woman passenger whom he had been with at Lisbon airport. When gardaí spoke to her and searched her luggage, they found 1.8kg of a white powder. The 44-year-old woman, who was born in Angola but has a Portuguese passport and lives in Dublin, was arrested under drugs trafficking legislation and taken to Togher Garda Station in Cork for questioning. The powder was sent to the State laboratory for analysis, where the woman’s claim that it was baking soda was confirmed. Gardaí were last night continuing to question her about her relationship with Mr Santos Gurjao and if she knew anything about the drugs he was smuggling into Ireland. Meanwhile, last night, following the completion of the postmortem examination, gardaí released the Aer Lingus plane which had been declared a crime scene and had been held for a forensic examination by Garda technical experts.

Man died on plane after drugs burst in stomach

 

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8 tons of cocaine seized...

Colombia seizes record cocaine haul in Turbo
16 May 2016 - Police in Colombia say they have seized their largest ever domestic haul of illegal drugs - nearly eight tonnes of cocaine.

The drugs had been hidden on a banana plantation near the north-western coastal town of Turbo. President Juan Manuel Santos congratulated officers on Twitter, saying: "Operation in Turbo seized the greatest amount in our history." Police say the drugs belonged to Clan Usuga, a criminal gang. Three suspects were arrested and another three escaped, a statement read.

Colombian police officer guards confiscated packages of cocaine in Turbo, Colombia​

Nearly 1.5 tonnes of the drugs had been wrapped and were "ready to go out to the export market", Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said. It was the largest seizure of cocaine on Colombian territory although there may have been slightly larger cocaine seizures at sea, he added. Clan Usuga is mainly engaged in drug trafficking but has also been accused of extortion, illegal mining, forced disappearances and murder, correspondents say.

Colombian police estimate the gang has about 2,000 active members. Over the past five years, the security forces have captured 6,700 members of the group. Earlier this month, the Colombian government said it would launch air raids against gangs involved in drug trafficking and illegal mining. The new strategy specifically targets three gangs - Clan Usuga, Los Pelusos and Los Puntilleros.

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Colombia claims largest cocaine seizure in its history
May 16,`16 -- Colombian authorities say they've made the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of a country long plagued by traffic in the drug.

The National Police agency says 50 commandos backed by helicopters seized about 8 tons of cocaine on a banana plantation in the northwestern department of Antioquia.

It says the drug belonged to a gang known as the Clan Usuaga and was apparently destined for the Caribbean and then to the United States.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos sent a tweet Sunday congratulating police on what he called the largest cocaine seizure in the history of Colombia, a major producer of the narcotic. Police say they've seized more than 86 tons in all so far this year.

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Big ol' cocaine bust in Bolivia...

Bolivia seizes 7.5 tons of cocaine worth $350M officials believe headed to U.S.
Aug. 2, 2016 -- Bolivian police seized more than seven tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $350 million they believe was headed to the United States.

The cocaine was hidden in a cargo shipment of mineral ore being carried within a truck along a remote mountain that leads into a Chile's sea ports. Police arrested three men. "Minister of Government Carlos Romero reports the most significant blow against drug trafficking," Bolivia's government ministry said in a statement released Monday. "The Special Force to Combat Drug Trafficking seized 7.5 tons of drugs, three are detained."

Bolivia is the world's third largest producer of cocaine, following Colombia and Peru. Bolivian President Evo Morales has often clashed with the United States over the drug trade.

In one of his harshest criticisms, he accused the United States of perpetuating drug trafficking and of "economic terrorism" in December 2014. He said the war on drugs is a geopolitical tactic used in the region against popular leaders to destabilize governments against the will of the country's people. "They are not interested in ending drug trafficking, but with [ending] our farmers, our people," Morales said, adding that "drug trafficking seems like the big business of the capitalist system," Morales said. "[The U.S.] is a very developed country, with a lot of technology and the one who consumes the most drugs."

Bolivia has been in a dispute with the United States since 2006 about cultivation of the coca plant, which is used by indigenous populations of Bolivia but is also the main ingredient in cocaine.

Bolivia seizes 7.5 tons of cocaine worth $350M officials believe headed to U.S.

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Drug lord's luxurious prison cell has plasma TV, DVD collection in Paraguay
Aug. 2, 2016 -- Paraguayan police raided a Brazilian drug lord's prison cell near the capital city of Asuncion to find he lived in a luxurious, three-room cell fitted with a plasma television and library.

In 2009, Jarvis Chimenes Pavao was imprisoned in the Tacumbu prison near Asuncion where he was due to complete his money laundering sentence in 2017 -- after which he would likely be extradited to Brazil. Police raided his cell after learning Pavao planned to escape by using explosives to blow a hole in the prison wall.

Pavao's cell had air conditioning, comfortable furniture, a bathroom and a DVD collection which included a series about notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, police said.

An investigation has been launched by Paraguayan authorities to determine which officials allowed Pavao to live a life of luxury while imprisoned. After the raid, the interior of the cell was stripped of the affluent comforts and Pavao was transferred to a special prison cell unit.

There are more than 3,500 inmates held in the Tacumbu prison, which has a prison capacity of 1,687. Paraguayan state media reported the prison cell was renovated under the knowledge of prison authorities and a former minister of justice -- who were not named.

Drug lord's luxurious prison cell has plasma TV, DVD collection in Paraguay

 

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Chicago inner city shihole populated by fucking negro gang-bangers who buy and sell the drugs and sell illegal guns to any twelve year old with a hundred bucks to spend.
Murder rate skyrocketing among negroes in Chicagoland.
Obama's buddy Rob spending as much time out of the city as possible.
Nobody in the current administration gives a shit.

'Michael' and his adopted girls moving to their villa in France.
Obama selling the free brownstone they were given in Chicago.
Obama moving into the apartment above 'Boystown' next year.