Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
By DANNY ROBBINS
The Associated Press
http://www.star-telegram.com/texas/story/1966340.html
DALLAS -- A group of Colombians is accused of supplying Mexican drug cartels with cocaine in a federal indictment that authorities described Friday as a strike at the cartels' reach in the United States.
The indictment, returned by a Plano grand jury in October and unsealed Feb. 5, charges 25 defendants with conspiracy to transport cocaine into the U.S. and the manufacture and distribution of cocaine for importation.
John Bales, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, said investigators believe that they are member of the Gaitan cartel.
"This case is as much about the Mexican cartels as it is about the Gaitan organization," he said at a news conference announcing the indictment.
The case is the first time that he has sought to prosecute individuals outside the country for their role in the drug trafficking chain, Bales said...Read More
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