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US Coast Guard transfers smugglers and over US$6.6 m in seized cocaine in Caribbean Sea Wednesday, March 17, 2021
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AFP) The United States Coast Guard has transferred custody of three suspected smugglers and an estimated US$6.6 million in seized cocaine to US federal agents at Coast Guard Base San Juan, following the interdiction of a drug smuggling vessel in the Mona Passage, near Mona Island, Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.
The US Coast Guard said on Tuesday that the suspected smugglers are males, Dominican Republic nationals, who now face criminal charges by US Department of Justice prosecution partners in the US Attorney s Office for the District of Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Attorney s Office says 41-year-old Aaron McKinney of Shreveport, known on the street as Dinosaur , was sentenced to ten years in prison for distribution of meth along with five years of supervised probation upon completion of his sentence.
Authorities say the sentence was handed down by a district judge for the man s charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Investigators with the government were able to get the required paperwork to monitor Dinosaur s calls and those of his fellow conspirators. They talked about acquiring meth, how much they were going to be able to get, what they were going to charge for their meth, and where they would meet to make these deals. The Drug Enforcement Agents worked the case.
A federal judge sentenced the last of four defendants in a drug trafficking case Wednesday, which involved more than a kilogram of heroin and distribution in Anne Arundel and Calvert counties.
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