Word: deas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he started, Tobon was routinely questioned by police and DEA officers suspicious of his reasons for claiming the bodies. But now Tobon often gets calls from police telling him that another body has been discovered. Often bodies lay unclaimed for weeks because even when the families know of the death, they are fearful that if they come forward, they will be linked to the drug gangs...
...Drug Enforcement Administration head TOM CONSTANTINE made a quiet trip to Bogota last week to say gracias to Colombian National Police chief GENERAL ROSSO JOSE SERRANO for his work rounding up the Cali dons. Since the CNP-DEA crackdown, says Constantine, the coke business has atomized, and the many small- and medium-size organizations now operating have neither the political sophistication nor the immense concentration of wealth of the old Cali guard. "That type of clout and power to intimidate doesn't exist anymore," says Constantine, who calls CNP boss Serrano "an honest guy who is determined to make...
...maximum-security wing of La Picota prison in Bogota because top Cali dons MIGUEL and GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ OREJUELA were thought to be plotting a jail break. The police found evidence they had been chatting away with their aides via cell phones, hard lines, fax and the Internet. Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized in Bogota so they could dial a local number and have a clerk patch their calls to numbers anywhere around the world. The CNP telecommunications crackdown has put a cramp in the dons...
Even the greatest drug lord's death is not expected to curtail the influx of cocaine into the U.S. "I don't see a big change in trafficking," said James Milford, the DEA's deputy administrator. "All our sources tell us it's business as usual. This guy didn't die in a power struggle but suffered a sudden death when most people in his organization were getting along." Even if the Carrillo organization were to splinter, there is neither a shortage of product nor dearth of entrepreneurs eager to exploit the U.S. cocaine market...
...fight is that Carrillo is unlikely to be replaced by anyone as skilled as he was. For the time being, his younger brother Vicente, 34, is expected to run operations. "Carrillo was a force to be reckoned with," says special agent Ernest Howard, who is in charge of the DEA office in Houston. "He was a visionary. A visionary can be replaced, but not by anybody who comes along...