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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--Leaders of the Medellin Cartel masterminded the slayings of Colombia's justice minister and the top U.S. drug informant, according to a cocaine-trafficking indictment unsealed here yesterday...
Among those indicted were a Massachsuetts man and Everette Bannister, a close associate of Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Bannister was accused of taking money from the cartel to allow traffickers to use the island nation off Florida's shores as a way station for $1 billion in drug imports...
...efforts to catch these individuals who are supplying drugs to the United States," U.S. Attorney Robert W. Genzman said. "We feel that the pressure has got to be kept on regardless of how many indictments come out in the United States against members of the cartel...
...people were charged in the "second wave" of indictments resulting from last May's conviction of Carlos Lehder Rivas, one of the leaders of the cartel, which officials say is responsible for up to 80 percent of the cocaine imported into the United States...
...indictment accuses cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria of organizing the assasination of Colombian Justice Minister Lara Bonilla on April 29, 1984, and says Escobar and Fabio Ocho Vasquez directed the February 19, 1986 slaying of former Drug Enforcement Administration informant Barry Seal...