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...Swiss authorities claim to have found the trail of the elusive Turk while pursuing a routine heroin investigation. In a secret international arrest warrant issued through Interpol, the international police organization, Swiss magistrates have charged Celik with running a small-time heroin ring between Istanbul and the Swiss city of Basel...
...Vegas. The burgeoning drug trade has spawned a new, younger group of organized-crime lawyers. "The image of the black-hat mouthpiece who can make witnesses disappear is completely out of date," says one Kaufman commission staff member. The new breed are sophisticated wheeler-dealers who help cocaine or heroin kingpins to conceal and invest their profits. They "see themselves as the Errol Flynns of their day, daring and bold," says another Kaufman staffer...
...growing up in Sicily, where he followed Mafia developments "like an American kid follows baseball." He said he spent 13 years in the syndicate, mostly as a hit man, after moving to New York City, and eventually killed 13 people. He also took part in armed robberies and carried heroin for the Bonanno and Gambino families. He had expected to become "a man of honor" in the Mafia, he explained, but he became ashamed of his own actions when he killed a woman in a $2,000 robbery. "In Sicily," he said, "you don't touch a lady even...
...commissioners also heard from Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 52, a former Harlem gangster convicted of heroin dealing. Wearing a hood to hide features that have been altered by plastic surgery, Barnes said he had controlled drug sales of some $200,000 a day in Harlem, but insisted that he had done so without violence...
...good cooperation over the past several years in attempting to destroy the production of the narcotics traffickers. Mexico provides the U.S. with about 38% of the heroin we receive. But as our own forces have grown in efficiency, the size and power (of the traffickers') organizations have also grown...