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...boss, Galante has pushed his underlings deeper into drug importing and distribution, long one of the family's most profitable enterprises. He has begun re-establishing the family's Southeast Asian connection, broken by federal narcotics agents six years ago. One sign of his success is the white Asian heroin that has begun reaching New York to compete with the more common Mexican brown...
...Dellacroce conflict is ranging from Manhattan to Canada. The first casualties were two Galante spies discovered among Dellacroce's followers. The Little Lamb acted quickly to get rid of the black sheep; their bodies have not been found. Next, Dellacroce sent gunmen to Harlem to shoot a number of heroin dealers?then spread the word that Galante had ordered the hits. Dellacroce's goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released on $300,000 bail, which he raised...
Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...
...series of standard checkups. Even if it has no obvious problems, the jet receives an eight-hour maintenance check four times annually. Every year, in addition, mechanics wheel each plane into a hangar for two weeks and tear it down piece by piece, like federal agents hunting for heroin. Ceilings and floors are removed, every rivet and every cable is inspected. Engines are constantly being monitored and overhauled. The maintenance procedures are so complicated and expensive that TWA estimates it has $300 million tied up in spare parts and equipment, enough to buy a whole airline fleet not so long...
...most of whom have arrived in the past ten years, reside in Phoenix and Tucson alone. They deal in prostitution, illegal gambling and narcotics smuggling; Arizona, in fact, has become the chief corridor for narcotics entering the U.S. now that Mexico has replaced Turkey as the leading source of heroin. The mobsters have gone unmolested, says the report, because "until recently the prosecutorial system has been marked by incompetence, fuzzy or nonexistent law and brazen bribe taking...