Word: coked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops in 1986 to destroy drug labs sparked violent protests. Peru's new President, Alberto Fujimori, fearful of pushing recruits into the arms of the Shining Path guerrillas, has hesitated to unleash the full force of the military in interdiction efforts. Both countries prefer to tackle the coke problem economically by encouraging farmers to grow other crops...
...bound cocaine, the entire region is being crisscrossed with routes for ferrying the drug northward. Smuggling is up sharply in Guatemala, whose remote mountains and vast jungles provide concealment for traffickers along the 540-mile border with Mexico. This year Guatemalan authorities have confiscated 2.5 tons of coke, a fivefold increase from two years ago. Police believe Panamanian traffickers are trying to relocate and turn Guatemala into a "golden bridge for their goods...
...Ferrari and gain access to a world of celebrities and politicians who were unaware of how he could afford his leather suits and diamond pendants. That may be because he also ran a trucking firm, an auto- leasing outfit and a limousine company, which were handy for his coke business. Recalls an admiring associate: "His drivers wore tuxedoes and he always made sure there was champagne in the cars...
...When Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the house in pursuit of that operator, they found records showing that Villabona and his Danish wife Helle Nielsen had seven bank accounts in Copenhagen. Later, the unsuspecting Villabona twice flew to Denmark, where he made hundreds of telephone calls to conduct his coke business. So, on one occasion, did Bennett...
...high-tech gadgets they depended on to keep the cops in the dark. On Nov. 6, 1988, two of Michael Harris' delivery men were stopped by Missouri state troopers for driving a van at 68 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone. The officers found 1,100 lbs. of coke in the vehicle. They also seized a cellular telephone. Tidily programmed into its memory were Bennett's telephone number in Tempe and that of a Los Angeles company linked to Villabona...