[CTRL] Fwd: Feds smash big Mexican heroin ring

Aleisha Saba Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:09:51 -0700

Maybe this explains a few more murders in Columbus and Steubenville
Area. Note the elderly and kids with boom boxes - now who deals the
cards and works for the House of Cards at the top?

What abuot the 100 dead bodies; and why did they call National Guard
away from watching California border? These are known drug routes and
you will find this Sollog Line is part of it - rather like tthe old Nazi
Odessa Route - there is an Odessa in Texas, is there not?

So Clinton made grand stand here....golly gee they got a few kids. Now
what about this Russia Mafia and the big time boys - you know the ones
who invest in Wall Street and launder their dirty money in Columbus,
Ohio primarily?

Was the Klebold kid part of this in Colorado?> Well Colorado burns now,
like Las Alamos....and meanwhile Clinton will be diverting our water to
Mexico....watch him try it, and if Gore by some miracle would get in -
well see.

White Ranchers by Mexican Border are being treater like White Farmers in
South Africa. See how newspapers down play this.

We are told that Mexicans will think nothing of borrowing your bicycle
or car without permission; have you ever seen them urinating in streets
in Mexico? And we are told to laugh this off as we are told to hug a 6
year old who murdered his little classmate, who went without punishment
- crack house involved here. That kid was taught how to ditch a gun.

This stuff makes me sick. The real snow birds sit are perched in our
Oval Office sharing the booty.....Larry Flynt and his pornography, makes
a nice front - he too, has a route.

Kids with boom boxes - ever search some of those fancy private plates
used by our low life movie stars and these rock stars who come well
protected by body guards - ever check them out and always remember Bob
Crane, and the old Country Dinner Playhouse routes.......

So 100 dead men buried on border and Clinton has lost interest here -

A Saba

Feds smash big Mexican heroin ring� Coast-to-coast operation cut into
Colombian drug markets� Surveillance videos showed couriers, many of
them elderly or juvenile, delivering the unusually pure black-tar heroin
to dealers on the street.
�ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, June 15 � �Federal agents made dozens of arrests
Thursday as they broke up a multimillion-dollar Mexican heroin ring
alleged to have smuggled unusually pure and cheap black tar heroin into
new markets from one U.S. coast to the other.
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� 'A juvenile carrying 1 pound of heroin in a boom box is a lot harder
to detect than the Colombians who move cocaine in tractor trailer
loads.'
� JOE KEEFE
DEA chief of special operations � � � �THE GANG, based in the
Nayarit state of Mexico, was distributing 80 pounds of heroin each
month, worth more than $7 million, in 22 U.S. cities, said Joe Keefe,
chief of special operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
� � � �The ring was marketing the heroin at such a high level of
purity and such a low price that the Mexicans pushed into eastern U.S.
markets formerly served by Colombian drug traffickers, Keefe said in an
interview.
� � � �Since Operation Tar Pit began in October in San Diego,
DEA and FBI agents had arrested 70 people through Wednesday. On
Thursday, they were arresting between 170 and 200 more people and
searching 60 locations.
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TEENS, ELDERLY USED
� � � �The ring used juvenile girls and men in their 60s
traveling alone from its U.S. command center in Los Angeles to carry
drugs to distribution cells from Hawaii to Georgia, Keefe's deputy, Rod
Benson, said in an interview. They each would carry 1 pound or 2 pounds
of heroin, either wrapped around them in a concealed waistband or hidden
in the back of a boom box radio.
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� � � �"This is the first time either DEA or the FBI has ever
done a major operation against black tar heroin in the United States. We
learned a lot," Keefe said.
� � � �"It will take a lot of law enforcement cooperation to
deal with this, because a juvenile carrying 1 pound of heroin in a boom
box is a lot harder to detect than the Colombians who move cocaine in
tractor trailer loads," he said.
� � � �Benson said DEA was alarmed to find that the ring was
selling $10 street doses of heroin, weighing half a gram, that were 60
percent to 85 percent pure heroin.
� � � �At a news conference, Attorney General Janet Reno said,
"This organization operated in a dangerously efficient manner. Not only
did this group exhibit disregard for the law, but their peddling of this
powerful and addictive drug showed an even greater disregard for human
life."
� � � �Donnie Marshall, the DEA administrator, said he believes
"this operation has some significant implications, not just for law
enforcement but for the country as a whole."
� � � �"This operation, I think, shows that heroin has
re-emerged in our society with a vengeance, and it is more potent and
more deadly in our country than ever before," said Marshall, speaking
with Reno at the DEA's suburban Arlington, Va., headquarters.

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RISING PURITY LEVELS
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� � � �Over the past few years, the purity of Mexican black tar
heroin had been in the 30 percent to 40 percent range. Colombia heroin,
which is white because it is processed more, is sold in the United
States in purities ranging from 70 percent to 90 percent.
� � � �On average, this ring was selling an ounce of heroin for
$1,500, compared with the average of $2,400 that Colombian traffickers
are charging.
� � � �"The Mexicans were underselling the Colombians by $800 to
$1,000 an ounce," Keefe said.
� � � �"The purity rise by the Mexicans over the last few years
is their way of competing with the high purity heroin the Colombians
bring in," Keefe said. "But the Mexicans also have brought the price
down to compete with Colombians in areas east of the Mississippi River
that they were not in before," including Cleveland, Columbus and
Steubenville, Ohio.
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�Benson said the ring grew its own opium in Nayarit state and
processed it there into black tar heroin, which it smuggled in vehicles
across the Arizona and California borders to Los Angeles.
� � � �The heroin was kept in stash houses in Los Angeles until
the couriers could carry it to distribution cells around the nation.
Some packages of heroin were shipped by FedEx and United Parcel Service
as well, Benson said. He said the shipping companies were unwitting
tools of the traffickers and had cooperated in the investigation, which
is continuing.
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TARGETING METHADONE CLINICS
� � � �To develop customers quickly, the distribution cells
specifically targeted methadone clinics, where heroin addicts receive
the drug methadone which blocks their need for heroin, Benson said.
� � � �Intelligence reports indicated the gang corrupted clinic
employees to send heroin addicts to apartments or hotels where they had
established shooting galleries to let the addicts sample and buy their
wares, Benson said.
� � � �No clinic employees were among Thursday's arrest targets,
Benson said.
� � � �He said the gang sold heroin in San Diego, Los Angeles
and Bakersfield, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; Honolulu; Anchorage, Alaska;
Las Vegas and Reno, Nev.; Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz.; Albuquerque, N.M.;
Salt Lake City; Denver; Cleveland, Columbus and Steubenville, Ohio;
Nashville, Tenn; Atlanta; Chicago; Detroit; Pittsburgh; and Corpus
Christi, Texas.
� � � �The gang also had distribution cells, not linked to one
city, in Kentucky, Minnesota, Alabama, West Virginia and New Jersey,
Benson said.
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