[Flagdu] {Disarmed} Fw: DATELINE DEA: July 30, 2010

[ralph narducci]

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Subject: DATELINE DEA: July 30, 2010


Dateline DEA
DEA's Biweekly E-mail Informant
  
July 30, 2010 
  
Top Stories from the Drug Enforcement Administration July 17 to July 30, 2010 
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Top FARC Commander Sentenced to 27 Years 
  
On July 22, DEA New York Special Agent in Charge John P. Gilbride and Preet 
Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that 
Gerardo Aguilar Ramirez, aka "Cesar," a former front commander in the Fuerzas 
Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or 
"FARC"), was sentenced to 27 years in U.S. prison for conspiring to import 
ton-quantities of cocaine into the United States. 

  
Aguilar Ramirez was responsible for all of the Front's criminal activities and 
among other things, he conspired with others to manufacture and distribute 
thousands of tons of cocaine in Colombia, with the knowledge and intent that 
such cocaine would be imported into the United States. 

  
Click Here to Read the DEA Press Release 
  
  
DEA Nabs Drug Lord After 10-Year Chase 
  
Caribbean Division Special Agents, with significant assistance from the DEA New 
York Field Division, arrested Puerto Rico's and the Dominican Republic's most 
wanted fugitive, Jose David Figueroa-Agosto alias Jr. Capsula, on July 17 in San 
Juan, PR. 

  
Figueroa-Agosto was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service's Puerto Rico Fugitive 
Task Force for escaping from a Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Correctional Facility 
about 10 years ago where he was serving a 209-year sentence for kidnapping and 
murder. 

  
Click Here to Read the DEA Press Release 
  
  
51 Suspected Gang Members Arrested 
  
On July 23, DEA Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Landrum, Santa 
Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, and Santa Maria Police Chief Danny Macagni 
announced the culmination of a joint investigation that resulted in the arrest 
of 51 suspected gang members and their associates with ties to drug trafficking 
throughout the Central Coast of California.  

  
The investigation also resulted in the seizure of more than 19 pounds of 
methamphetamine, a methamphetamine conversion laboratory, 1.5 kilograms of 
cocaine, small amounts of crack cocaine, 25 pounds of marijuana, 35 firearms, 
$800,000 in U. S. currency, and property. 

  
Click Here to Read the DEA Press Release 
  
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DID YOU KNOW? 
  
The DEA is in the process of studying the effects of Salvia, an herbal 
supplement that is rapidly gaining popularity among teens who are smoking it to 
get high. The plant is very dangerous when abused and when smoked it causes 
powerful hallucinations. To read more about Salvia click here. 

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