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Article: 9 suspected leaders of drug cartel indicted
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2004
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9 suspected leaders of drug cartel indicted
From Journal Sentinel wire reports
Friday, May 7, 2004
Washington -- Nine reputed leaders of Colombia's largest drug
cartel have been indicted on charges that their organization smuggled
more than $10 billion worth of cocaine into the United States,
federal officials announced Thursday.
The Norte de Valle cartel, which supplanted the Medellin and Cali
drug organizations in the early 1990s, could be the source of as much
as 60% of the U.S. cocaine supply, Drug Enforcement Administration
chief Karen Tandy said at a news conference.
With only one of the nine suspects in U.S. custody, officials
announced rewards of up to $5 million for the capture of ...