Cocaine
Miami Gardens ‘violent drug dealer’ who shot at Uber driver faces charges, feds say
An Uber driver reported feeling afraid after a firearm magazine fell out of the pocket of a rider, Lester Leon Sanders, in Miami-Dade County, records show.
Deputies arrest Keys wanted fugitive asking for protection from drunk sword-wielding son
A mother called 911 to say her 31-year-old son was armed with a sword and threatening to kill her, and she ended up getting arrested, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
‘Largest drug offload’ in U.S. Coast Guard history includes cocaine found in ‘many’ vessels from Venezuela, feds say
The U.S. Coast Guard celebrated a “historic milestone” after crews unloaded over 76,140 pounds of illegal drugs -- most of it cocaine -- that the feds planned to investigate and destroy.
Deputies arrest man for cocaine trafficking in Florida Keys
A 47-year-old man stands accused Thursday of trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine in the Florida Keys, records show.
Colombian duo admits to trafficking over 43,000 kilos of cocaine
The cocaine was hidden in boxes of fruit. It traveled in commercial planes from Colombia and into the United States after a stop in Central America.
Florida man awaits sentencing after admitting to cocaine dealing
A Florida man recently admitted to cocaine dealing after allegedly showing dirty cash to undercover cops during a Facetime call.
Broward deputies arrest fugitive accused of narcotrafficking
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a 33-year-old fugitive who is a convicted felon with a pending drug trafficking case.
Feds describe how Miami contract pilot got caught trafficking cocaine
A Miami contract pilot known as “Jagger” flew a private jet registered in the U.S. from the Dominican Republic to Venezuela where he expected men to load about 1,700 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia.
Police: Zoe Mafia Family gang member caught dealing fentanyl, cocaine in Hollywood
A man cops identified as a Zoe Mafia Family gang member had been involved with cocaine for about a decade in Broward County. A detective recently reported he had added fentanyl and ecstasy to his dealings.
Local 10 Archives: Detective foresees fate of ‘Griselda’ after her deportation from Miami to Medellin
When Nelson Andreu, the retired chief of the West Miami Police Department, was a Metro-Dade detective, he thought of Griselda Blanco as a serial killer.
Griselda archives: Cocaine dirty money affords foreign brutal killers luxury in Miami
Luis Garcia-Blanco, a Cuban who had arrived in Miami on the Mariel boatlift, was accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend Maricel Gutierrez in the head with a machine gun in 1980, in Miami-Dade. He had allegedly also cut off her finger and kept it in a Bible.
Griselda archives: War on drugs leaves trail of cold case cases in Miami-Dade
When an assassin in Miami-Dade killed Oscar Piedrahita — who had allegedly betrayed Colombian cocaine trafficker Griselda Blanco — he used a submachine gun. The hitman put more bullets in Piedrahita’s garage door than he put in him.
Griselda archives: Colombian mothers face true cost of cocaine business after families turn into crime rings
Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency waited for guests to arrive for a baby shower at a restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana. When they moved in to arrest a woman, two men who were near her ran away holding cases for what appeared to be a violin and a guitar.
Griselda archives: War trauma fuels savagery of Colombia’s 1st major drug cartel
War followed Griselda Blanco. She was born in Colombia’s Caribbean region of Cartagena-Santa Marta where the use of violence over agrarian disputes and smuggling highly dictated bipartisan politics.
Griselda archives: Cocaine wars in Miami came with wild-west-style shootouts amid competition for crown
In northern Bogotá, Colombia, in a posh neighborhood, a woman clad in soft beige walked in high heels out of a two-story house with armed guards to investigate who was spying on her in the 1980s. Detectives identified her as Veronica Rivera de Vargas, better known as Bogotá's “Queen of Cocaine.”
High-speed chase in Broward nets 3 suspects, 1 kilo of cocaine, 3 guns
There was a high-speed chase on Wednesday in Broward County that was part of a multi-agency law enforcement team that caught a trio with a criminal history, cocaine, and weapons, records show.