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 veggie
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 Colombian 'heroin kingpin' sentenced to 40 years in US jail 
#5697570 - 05/31/06 10:58 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Colombian 'heroin kingpin' sentenced to 40 years in US jail
May 31, 2006 - Yahoo!
NEW YORK (AFP) - Colombian "heroin kingpin" Ramiro Lopez-Imitola was sentenced in New York to 40 years in prison for smuggling 200 million dollars' worth of the highly addictive drug into the United States, authorities said.
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Lopez-Imitola, who headed a heroin trafficking ring based in Colombia and Venezuela, had pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment in March 2005.
His organization exported more than two tonnes of heroin into the United States since 1997, authorities said.
He was extradited from Colombia to the United States in 2004.
Lopez-Imitola "is one of the most prolific heroin traffickers ever prosecuted in the United States," said the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
He was accused of using torture and intimidation to control his criminal enterprise.
District Judge Robert Patterson ordered him to forfeit the street value of the heroin his organization sold in the United States, 200 million dollars.
Authorities said 17 members of the Lopez-Imitola organization had been arrested, and more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of heroin had been seized.
The heroin was smuggled to Venezuela from Colombia before entering the United States.
More than 250 "human couriers" were recruited to ingest heroin pellets or conceal the narcotic inside suitcases in a daily smuggling operation from Venezuela to the United States, authorities said.
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Jim
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Re: Colombian 'heroin kingpin' sentenced to 40 years in US jail [Re: veggie]
#5697593 - 05/31/06 11:01 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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no death penalty? Didn't they want to give Emery the death penalty for profiting more than $1 million dollars off the sale of marijuana seeds, where this guy is getting 40 years for $200 million>???
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Re: Colombian 'heroin kingpin' sentenced to 40 years in US jail [Re: Jim]
#5698141 - 06/01/06 01:20 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jim said:
Didn't they want to give Emery the death penalty for profiting more than $1 million dollars off the sale of marijuana seeds,
I believe they're still going to. Extradition anyway.
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