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...everyone. An exceptionally violent streak seems to run through the trade. Says the DEA's Bacon about the Colombian gangs: "They're absolutely ruthless, and they've imported their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid...
...cocaine ring, known as the grandma Mafia because three of its principals were grandmothers, banked more than $2 million a month; in the trial of the head grandma now under way in Los Angeles, there have been at least four plausible allegations of corruption against DEA and IRS agents. Last December a federal indictment in Georgia said that a state police sergeant and a local deputy sheriff were confederates in a 25-person smuggling ring. In one week in February, a Los Angeles deputy sheriff, a California-based DEA agent and a San Jose policeman were charged with selling coke...
...distinct and scrupulous legal process to prove that the gains were specifically illgotten. Says Miami U.S. Attorney Stanley Marcus: "It takes a lot?I mean a lot?to convince a federal judge that $10 million in someone's personal bank account should be taken away from him." Nonetheless, the DEA and other federal agencies last year managed to seize about $100 million in cash, $40 million worth of aircraft, boats and cars, and $20 million in real estate. Local police also seem to get a special kick from seeing cocaine merchants stripped of their fancy possessions. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., police...
Given that bounty-hunting enthusiasm, the new federal task forces, modeled on the feds' year-old South Florida unit, could pay for themselves. The task forces in each of twelve cities* might typically include four prosecutors, at least six agents from the FBI, six more from the DEA, three from the IRS and two from Customs. Until last year, the FBI steered clear of drug cases, largely because J. Edgar Hoover did not want his agents tempted by narcotics cash. But now 600 FBI agents are working on 1,100 drug investigations, and the bureau already has 326 convictions...
...signs of bad weather, hoping that nature will spoil the lucrative crop of opium poppies that are the economic mainstay of the mountainous region where the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos converge. This year the climate has been kind to the poppy growers and bad for the DEA: a bumper crop of 700 tons is expected, 100 tons more than last year. But the U.S. narcs are not very worried. The reason: in Burma's remote Shan state, where nearly 80% of the area's opium is grown, vicious fighting between the warlords who dominate the drug...