Feds describe how Miami contract pilot got caught trafficking cocaine
Read full article: Feds describe how Miami contract pilot got caught trafficking cocaineA Miami contract pilot known as “Jagger” flew a private jet registered in the U.S. from the Dominican Republic to Venezuela where he expected men to load about 1,700 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia.
Police: Zoe Mafia Family gang member caught dealing fentanyl, cocaine in Hollywood
Read full article: Police: Zoe Mafia Family gang member caught dealing fentanyl, cocaine in HollywoodA man cops identified as a Zoe Mafia Family gang member had been involved with cocaine for about a decade in Broward County. A detective recently reported he had added fentanyl and ecstasy to his dealings.
Detective foresees fate of ‘Griselda’ after her deportation from Miami to Medellin
Read full article: Detective foresees fate of ‘Griselda’ after her deportation from Miami to MedellinWhen Nelson Andreu, the retired chief of the West Miami Police Department, was a Metro-Dade detective, he thought of Griselda Blanco as a serial killer.
Griselda archives: Cocaine dirty money affords foreign brutal killers luxury in Miami
Read full article: Griselda archives: Cocaine dirty money affords foreign brutal killers luxury in MiamiLuis Garcia-Blanco, a Cuban who had arrived in Miami on the Mariel boatlift, was accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend Maricel Gutierrez in the head with a machine gun in 1980, in Miami-Dade. He had allegedly also cut off her finger and kept it in a Bible.
Griselda archives: War on drugs leaves trail of cold case cases in Miami-Dade
Read full article: Griselda archives: War on drugs leaves trail of cold case cases in Miami-DadeWhen an assassin in Miami-Dade killed Oscar Piedrahita — who had allegedly betrayed Colombian cocaine trafficker Griselda Blanco — he used a submachine gun. The hitman put more bullets in Piedrahita’s garage door than he put in him.
Griselda archives: Colombian mothers face true cost of cocaine business after families turn into crime rings
Read full article: Griselda archives: Colombian mothers face true cost of cocaine business after families turn into crime ringsFederal agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency waited for guests to arrive for a baby shower at a restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana. When they moved in to arrest a woman, two men who were near her ran away holding cases for what appeared to be a violin and a guitar.
Griselda archives: War trauma fuels savagery of Colombia’s 1st major drug cartel
Read full article: Griselda archives: War trauma fuels savagery of Colombia’s 1st major drug cartelWar followed Griselda Blanco. She was born in Colombia’s Caribbean region of Cartagena-Santa Marta where the use of violence over agrarian disputes and smuggling highly dictated bipartisan politics.
Griselda archives: Cocaine wars in Miami came with wild-west-style shootouts amid competition for crown
Read full article: Griselda archives: Cocaine wars in Miami came with wild-west-style shootouts amid competition for crownIn northern Bogotá, Colombia, in a posh neighborhood, a woman clad in soft beige walked in high heels out of a two-story house with armed guards to investigate who was spying on her in the 1980s. Detectives identified her as Veronica Rivera de Vargas, better known as Bogotá's “Queen of Cocaine.”
High-speed chase in Broward nets 3 suspects, 1 kilo of cocaine, 3 guns
Read full article: High-speed chase in Broward nets 3 suspects, 1 kilo of cocaine, 3 gunsThere was a high-speed chase on Wednesday in Broward County that was part of a multi-agency law enforcement team that caught a trio with a criminal history, cocaine, and weapons, records show.