Word: druglords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly $100,000. Two men in a camper have already arrived in Mendocino County, inquiring after Nelson's whereabouts. The marijuana plants that he and his partner, Clarence Meadows, are cultivating in a remote canyon on his father's land will more than settle this debt when harvested...
AMADO CARRILLO FUENTES Call it the fatal face-lift: druglord dies during plastic surgery intended to fool cops...
...walled ranch house. The agents had received a critical tip: Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's most powerful drug dealers, was inside. At 7 p.m., the team moved in. They smashed through the front gate in a minivan, taking Garcia Abrego and two bodyguards by surprise. As the druglord dashed out a back door and tried to launch his portly frame over a fence, agents grabbed him by the shirt. Twenty minutes later, the man who had shipped perhaps a third of the cocaine consumed in the U.S. during the past decade was in handcuffs...
Santacruz was drinking lemonade when two police officers spotted him. When Serrano was informed, he realized the restaurant was only nine blocks from his home, and immediately ordered the bodyguards watching over his own family to arrest Santacruz. They arrived in three or four minutes and took the druglord into custody. "He was a bit fatter than in the pictures and videos we had of him," says Serrano. "He was in a very shocked state...