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Was that the stores were owned by the cartel itself. there had been banks in miami that had been co-opted by traffickers but the cartel didn't need to rely on others. it could handle the money itself. so monsalve was a crucial piece of the puzzle, because he was the brains behind the stores and he could speak directly about the norte valle cartel. >> however, monsalve did not cooperate. monsalve just told us to pounce. he didn't want to talk, and he sat in jail. >> with monsalve not speaking to us, we needed to look for other links to the cartel. one of those links was monsalve's right-hand ma...

To assist in laundering the money back there and had day to day dealings with the cartel. and we had secured an arrest warrant for hector. later in 2001, a very, very half assed informant who was wrong the majority of the time told us hector's sister-in-law would be having a christening. >> and hector was going to come back to the united states for it traveling under fake mexican papers. >> it was august 6 of 2001. we sat out there, and the informant called us in the afternoon after the christening and said hector was there at the party. and we arrested him. >> hector made a decision to cooper...

>> hector could paint a picture of the hierarchy of the cartel for us. he knew not just the leadership but the lieutenants and the powers that be. in colombia, he realized how important he could be to be able to get arrest warrants for these people. the cartel leaders, they don't come to the united states. they don't come to new york to hang out. >> back in 1997, the colombiaen government signed an extradition treaty with the united states government. so that meant we were able to arrest in collaboration with the government individuals in colombia and send these individuals back to the united ...

Traffickers but the cartel didn't need to rely on others. it could handle the money itself. so monsalve was a crucial piece of the puzzle, because he was the brains behind the stores and he could speak directly about the norte valle cartel. >> however, monsalve did not cooperate. monsalve just told us to pounce. he didn't want to talk, and he sat in jail. >> with monsalve not speaking to us, we needed to look for other links to the cartel. one of those links was monsalve's right-hand man called hector. hector had managed monsalve's drug operation in the united states. >> and we knew that monsa...

Everything open. >> hector could paint a picture of the hierarchy of the cartel for us. he knew not just the leadership but the lieutenants and the powers that be. in colombia, he realized how important he could be to be able to get arrest warrants for these people. the cartel leaders, they don't come to the united states. they don't come to new york to hang out. >> back in 1997, the colombiaen government signed an extradition treaty with the united states government. so that meant we were able to arrest in collaboration with the government individuals in colombia and send these individuals ba...